Weekly Axis Of Easy #35 In this issue: YAAF0D: Yet Another Adobe Flash 0-Day Firefox flaw allows remote code execution Privacy app Telegram dropped from iTunes Store after content violation Bell Canada Data Breach (again) Google abandons “Fact Checking” system Cargill invests in facial recognition software – for bovines Welcome to Bitcoin’s Trough of Disillusionment […]
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Supervillain Blofeld Warns: Facebook And Google Are A Menace To Society
Weekly Axis Of Easy #34 In this issue: Supervillain Blofeld warns: Facebook and Google are a menace to humanity Should you be worried about being killed by a Slaughterbot? NSA deletes “honesty” from its list of core values Macleans: 2018 will be the year of cyberwar Canadian privacy watchdog on your rights to dispute search […]
Is Bitcoin Cash a "legitimate" crypto-currency?
Several weeks ago we announced support for Bitcoin Cash as part of our response to the situation of inordinately high fees for Bitcoin transactions (a situation we consider to be temporary and of the “growing pains” ilk). Those remedies included zero confirmations for existing members in good standing, and we adopted Bitcoin Cash as a […]
NSA Has Deleted Data It Was Supposed To Preserve For A Lawsuit
Weekly Axis Of Easy #33 In this issue: NSA has deleted data it was supposed to preserve for a lawsuit Twitter notifies 677,775 users that they’ve interacted with Russian bots during election Concerns mounting over social media addictiveness and censorship Amazon opens first fully automated, unmanned grocery store City of Toronto counsellor advocates accepting Bitcoin […]
Senate Votes Today On Bill Extension That Enables Warrantless Spying
Weekly Axis Of Easy #32 In this issue: DNS Leak Disclosure Facebook to prioritize “trustworthy” news Iranian government in Chinese-style internet crackdown “Swat Call” prankster charged with Involuntary Manslaughter FBI Chief calls “unbreakable encryption” an urgent public safety issue Senate votes today on bill extension that enables warrantless spying DNS Leak Disclosure Over the summer […]
DNS leak disclosure
Since the summer we have been carrying out routine upgrades and rebuilds of our anycast constellations. In July and August we rebuilt dns3.easydns.org and dns3.easydns.ca, while more recently we moved dns4.easydns.info from an outsourced anycast provider to one we have rebuilt and deployed ourselves. On Friday November 10, 2017 we were made aware that dns4.easydns.info had […]
