Collaborate Disseminate
In addition to being the year of AI, 2024 may also be the year in which we finally learned the true cost of online tracking, thanks largely—but not exclusively—to new EU regulations.
As I wrote in Put Up or Shut Up (Premium), I was shocked to see M… Continue reading What If Anything Can We Do To Prevent Tracking Online? (Premium)
The war on Internet ads rages on, as the arms race between ad blockers and ad creators continues to escalate. To make a modern Internet experience even remotely palatable, plenty …read more Continue reading Pie Stop For Emergency DNS Needs
We’ve seen many inventive enclosures for single board computers over the years: some are decorative, others utilitarian, and yet more tailored to an application. This one from [Daniel Hepper] manages …read more Continue reading Spam Caught, In A Tin Of Spam
Thunderspy was announced this week, developed by [Björn Ruytenberg]. A series of attacks on the Thunderbolt 3 protocol, Thunderspy is the next vulnerability in the style of Inception, PCILeech, and Thunderclap.
Inception and PCILeech were attacks on the naive Direct Memory Access (DMA) built into Firewire, Thunderbolt 1, and PCIe. …read more
Continue reading This Week in Security: Thunderspy, Facebook Breaking Everything, and More
I have a love-hate relationship with ad blockers. On the one hand, I despise the obnoxious ads that are forced down our throats at what seems like every turn. On the other hand, I appreciate the need for publishers to earn a living so that I can consume their hard-earned…
Pi-hole is an open source project to turn that Raspberry Pi collecting dust in your drawer into a whole-network ad blocking appliance. Not only does it stop ads from showing up on all your computers and mobile devices, it also keeps track of how many ads have been blocked and where they came from. Just in case you wanted to know how many thousands of ads you missed out on for a given time period.
While the graphs generated in the web interface of Pi-hole are slick and all, what if you just wanted a quick way of visualizing how …read more
Continue reading Visualizing Blocked Ads with the Pi Sense Hat