Hack the Cloud!
The obvious rants against software or services “in the cloud” are that you don’t own it, your data isn’t on your own hard drive, or that, when the interwebs are …read more Continue reading Hack the Cloud!
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Ask Hackaday: Wink Hubs, Extortion as a Service?
Wink Labs just announced that their home automation hub, the Wink Hub, is “transitioning to a $4.99 monthly subscription, starting on May 13, 2020.” Should you fail to pay the fiver every month, you will lose access to their app, voice control, and automations, which is everything it does as …read more
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Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users
As the well-worn internet saying goes – there is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer. Continue reading Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users
The Cloud — Don’t Be the Driver, Be the Mechanic
Aidan Finn argues why knowledge of how infrastructure works is still as important as ever.
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Amazon S3: Out Like a Light; On Like a Bathtub
You no doubt heard about the Amazon S3 outage that happened earlier this week. It was reported far and wide by media outlets who normally don’t delve into details of the technology supporting our connected world. It is an interesting thing to think that most people have heard about The Cloud but never AWS and certainly not S3.
We didn’t report on the outage, but we ate up the details of the aftermath. It’s an excellent look under the hood. We say kudos to Amazon for adding to the growing trend of companies sharing the gory details surrounding events like …read more
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How to secure your remote workers
Remote workers are often the weakest link in a company’s cybersecurity defenses. Find out how your company can protect its network and remote employees from threats.Categories: 101
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Obsolescence as a Service
Yet another Internet of Things service has left its customers in the lurch. IoT devices (mostly lightbulbs) made by Greenwave Systems stopped talking to the outside world on July 1. More specifically, the server to which they all connected (ahem, “the cloud”) has been turned off, which rules out using the bulbs with Internet-based services like IFTTT, which was a major selling point of the Things in the first place.
It’s not the first time we’ve seen IoT companies renege on their promises to provide service, and it’s surely not going to be the last. We’re preaching to the choir …read more
The new world order for open-source and commercial software
We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with enormous stakes and conflicting ideologies. But suddenly… perestroika! The wall quietly fell. It did not end in absolute victory, or a stalemate; convergence is a more apt term. Read More Continue reading The new world order for open-source and commercial software
For Google’s Cloud, 18 Minutes of Downtime Is an Eternity
Google’s engineering VP offers a post-mortem analysis of Monday night’s outage. Continue reading For Google’s Cloud, 18 Minutes of Downtime Is an Eternity