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Websites offering self hosted, static advertising isn't so much of a problem as random bits of javascript and tracking cookies loaded from god knows where every time you load a pag…

You should fix that error message too, it's pretty awful.

Probably a lot of sources, depends how well connected you are. The biggest one is just routing information and rDNS hosts which give away a lot of the information required anyway. …

A fun edge case is that .au domains are not registrable by any entity, except for the ones that exist just because. http://csiro.au/

That's been fairly clear from the start. Almost anything actually useful needs an oracle, and then you get back to the problem of wait, didn't Bitcoin already solve this problem ha…

> DEFINITELY NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE: Personally, I think $2.80/0.01 XBT is low and I would not be in a rush to sell at this price. But, I do understand if you're bearish and you want…

Money buys a lot of commits. Give me a few million dollars and we'll get together a group of people that will build an entire computer from discrete transistors. People involved an…

I think you put far too much trust in one of thousands of clone VPN services. There's no reputation to taint, there's stock standard scripts running on commodity VPS boxes they ren…

Just giving the benefit of the doubt here, a lot of the time it's unclear if your disclosure even made it to the right people in a company or not. No response is the norm for secur…

Why do you trust Amazon AWS and this company more than your own connection?

Why is their target 8 seconds to load the page? That's a ridiculously long time.

That's rich, coming from The Verge. 245 objects requested, 48 JavaScript files loaded, 9.8MB.

Why would it be corrupted? Just because it contains a malicious payload doesn't mean it has to be unviewable normally. Could even just tack onto all outgoing MMS by default and nev…

If malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.

Probably has engineering challenges past what you would normally face, which thankfully makes a 1B device botnet a little unrealistic. I can't imagine how you'd even begin to contr…

It's likely too late for panic, everyone is probably owned already. It has the best infection vector ever, unauthenticated, unsolicited messaging with an easily discoverable addres…

Why target people specifically? A phone has all the tools necessary to infect every other peer they can reach. Almost instant billion device botnet, each with a new list of targets…

Slightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.

Web 3.0 is pretty much that. Load 10MB of JavaScript libraries sequentially, then every element on the page needs a new loader, 30 HTTP requests, and a web socket.

You don't remember Microsoft Surface, the coffee table touch computer?