Weekly Axis Of Easy #71 This week’s quote: “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do” by ….????? (Hint, it wasn’t Elon Musk) Last Week’s Quote was “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” …by Thucydides. Solved by Gus. THE RULES: No searching up the answer, must be posted to the comments […]
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What to do about those “You’ve been hacked! Pay me Bitcoin” email spams
We originally reported on this back in #AxisOfEasy 58, it’s the phenomenon of getting an email spam wherein the mailer claims to have hacked or compromised your computer, and will (pick one). encrypt or corrupt your computers, files or data spread embarrassing or compromising information about you to your contacts release an unflattering video ostensibly […]
A Tale of Two Outages
We compared two datacenter outages that occurred relatively close to each other in both time and space. The first was the Namejuice/DROA/DROC outage which, in the absence of any information from the vendor we speculated upon and analyzed here. The other happened to us about a week ago. Both occurred during North American peak business […]
[AxisOfEasy] Facebook and Twitter Conduct Coordinated Purge of Independent Media Outlets
Weekly Axis Of Easy #70 This week’s quote: “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” …by ????? Last Week’s Quote was “Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” …by Thomas Henry Huxley (a contemporary of Charles Darwin who is credited with having invented the […]
[Resolved] Brief Datacenter Outage
Shortly after 3pm ET today our main datacenter in Markham, ON experienced a failure in one of its core routers at 151 Front St, which as many of you know is the main NAP for Toronto area. This affected connectivity to the main easyDNS control panel, website, email servers and web hosting platform. DNS and […]
[AxisOfEasy] Google: The Good Censor
Weekly Axis Of Easy #69 This week’s quote: “Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” …by ????? Last Week’s Quote was “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” …which was not Jean-Paul Sartre, even though that’s who I thought it was last week. Tony King is […]
