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 […]
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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 […]
0 Confirmations & Now accepting Bitcoin Cash as a payment method.
Before the holidays we took a look at a bunch of Bitcoin payments we’ve received and saw that the transaction fees were in the area of 10% of the gross amount of the transaction. That seems high, and while we have every confidence that this is a short term phenomenon – namely, Segwit2x and/or Lightning, […]
Iran Cuts Off Internet And Shuts Down Social Networks
Weekly Axis Of Easy #31 In this issue: Iran cuts off Internet and shuts down social networks Kansas man killed in “Swatting” prank UK to Google & Facebook: Hand over customer data or face higher taxes New US border rules limit scope of searches on your mobile device Review: Intel Meltdown / Spectre chip flaws […]
Special Update on the Spectre/Meltdown Intel Chipset Vulnerability
Axis Of Easy Special Update In this issue: The Intel chipset bug What and who is affected What to do about it The Intel chipset bug A security research team discovered two separate vulnerabilities in Intel chips that exploit weaknesses in the isolation between the operating system and the application layer in one […]
