Weekly Axis Of Easy #155 Last Week’s Quote was “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” , was Douglas Adams, author of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. Nobody got it. However, the week before, Aoe #153’s quote “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best”, I said nobody got […]
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Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone, so are you. At least […]
[AxisOfEasy] Police Use Twitter’s Dataminr To Surveil #BlackLivesMatter Protestors
Ex security advisor: China’s hacking of Nortel was the beginning of the end
Canadians can opt-out of facial recognition DB by opting into DB
LinkedIn sued for iOS clipboard spying
Police use Twitter’s Dataminr to surveil BlackLivesMatter protestors
[AxisOfEasy] Underworld in panic as cops penetrate secret criminal chat app
Weekly Axis Of Easy #153 Last Week’s Quote was “What is essential is to develop the will to see things, to see how human beings are manipulated, to see where there might be impulses by which people are manipulated”, was Rudolf Steiner, inventor of the Waldorf Schools (among other things). Nobody got it. This Week’s Quote: […]
[AxisOfEasy] US Bill Would Make Encryption Back-Doors Mandatory
Weekly Axis Of Easy #152 Last Week’s Quote was “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation”…was by Thomas Bracket Reed- who Lora Pilgrim informs us was a Republican Speaker in the House of Representatives from 1877-1899. Sorry Lora, however, Joe Goldblatt […]
Maintenance Window TODAY [completed]
From 8pm to 9pm EDT [1-2am UTC] on Wednesday 24 June, we will be performing a brief maintenance window to expand our pool of backend mailservers. We do not anticipate any problems affecting users in this process.
