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When setting up multiple VPSs connected by "private networking" with a company like Linode, or Digital Ocean, or what-have-you, you need to assume that the inter-VPS links are not …

The recent past seems like such a dark time for people who are skeptical of all this State Spycraft stuff. An award to a good film about an essentially important issue, with a litt…

I think the worst aspect of all these bad actors is how they use misleading language to hide what they are doing. Consider PrivDog's sales pitch: PrivDog® protects your privacy whi…

+1 no giant full-width+full-height responsive image Okay this looks really interesting! And with no full-width+full-height responsive image, I can proceed... it's something differe…

I think it's interesting that this BADWARE install was found more or less accidentally... apparently by some tech dude noticing that his bank login presented a Silverfish-issued CA…

Maybe it's the doing of the U.S. gov't... maybe not... But in any case, what's the point of keeping the U.S. government's action or non-action secret? As the linked piece states: "…

Dudes... I don't really care... I just want a way to synchronize my VPS clock with that of other, established, secure clocks... because DigitalOcean (okay, go ahead and downvote me…

Okay, Brittney Bronson, it is what it is... You teach the young grown-ups / old kids at the college, and then you shuck it in your part-time service job... It is what it is...

Too much condescending tone in this "proposal"... I think people just want to see the film. I certainly want to see the film. It might have a crappy plot or a second-rate screenpla…

Seems like somebody in the DoJ just decided that Tor's balance between geeky CompSci curiosity and enabler of real-world criminal behavior has tipped too far in the latter directio…

Sure, the proportion converges to 1 as the order of magnitude approaches infinity. But this convergence is really really slow...

Dude. You come to SV to make it. Kids, house, schools... they all need to be taken into consideration, sure... but you can't just choose one part of your lifestyle while assuming t…

Wait... IKEA??? $489??? SOLD!!! Don't even need to know anything more... SHIP IT!!!

Don't care about cars. Care about those devices called "humans". These dudes fixes and tuned the latter while appearing to fix and tune the former. And one will not be the same wit…

Dude. $750K for Intel. They spend more per day on psychological counseling for their chip geek employees who think they're living in the Matrix. Ain't gonna force them to backdoor …

And if you need a "high-quality suite of tools for debugging", then all you need to do is look for them... Preferably not in Firefox Extensions, because they are malware-prone...

No, debugging web apps is inherently different from using them. Kudos to Mozilla for this one!

Yeah, but it still seems like a great service. This... versus the $5/mo to pay to DigitalOcean to host essentially nothing other than postfix & cyrus daemons... is quite reasonable…