Put A Couple Of Zeroes On It…

Quite likely the defining opinion piece, well-crafted by the inimitable Kara Swisher, writing at The New York Times, targeting the the entity known as Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) (of which, in our opinion, is a classicly structured and well organized … Continue reading Put A Couple Of Zeroes On It…

The Geomagnetic Jerk

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Superb explanatory post – via Julien Aubert from l’Institut de physique du globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/IGN/Université de Paris), and writing at CNRS – focusing on the phenom of geomagnetic jerks. Today’s Must Read… Continue reading The Geomagnetic Jerk

No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

via Chris Morris’ well-crafted reportage at Fortune, comes the story of illegal data sharing engaged in by Motel 6, and the $12,000,000 price tag the company coughed up in settlement fines to the State of Washington. I guess they might not be ‘leaving… Continue reading No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

If At First You Do Not Succeed… Try, Try Again: Russian VPNFilter Malware

Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica, regales us with the tale of VPNFilter – The Multi-Tool of Russian Miscreants. Today’s Must Read!
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A New Way In: The Cloudflare IPFS Gambit

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Dependent – of course – on your point-of-view – i.e, whether you are on the IPFS Hypermedia File System construct, or not. Intrigued? I was, hence the designation of Lawrence Abrams’ superlative reportage as Today’s Must R… Continue reading A New Way In: The Cloudflare IPFS Gambit

macOS Mojave Security – User Operability Flaws Lead To Slippery Slope

via the inimitable Rich Mogull, writing at TidBits, comes this interesting take on newly implemented user-land security operability problems in Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) desktop operating variant of Darwin (aka macOS X (10.14). Typically, strict utili… Continue reading macOS Mojave Security – User Operability Flaws Lead To Slippery Slope

Stewart Baker and Bruce Schneier: Click Here To Kill Everbody Podcast

Quite likely one of the more entertaining CyberLaw Blog Podcast yet… In this case, the inimitable Bruce Schneier talks with Cyberlaw Blog podcast’s eponymous Stewart Baker on the occasion of Bruce’s latest publishing tour de force: ‘Click Here to Ki… Continue reading Stewart Baker and Bruce Schneier: Click Here To Kill Everbody Podcast

MIT: Underwater to Atmosphere Radio Communications Perfected

Incroyable! Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed what could very well be the ‘holy grail’ of submarine-to-surface communications. Monikered TARF, the system ostensibly converts SONAR to RADAR with no mid-processing steps req… Continue reading MIT: Underwater to Atmosphere Radio Communications Perfected

Well Done, Pete, Well Done

Behold: A well crafted white paper, targeting security related white papers, that is apparently a blog post, and most importantly, dripping with the sweet, sweet wine of security sarcasm. Today’s Must Read!
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