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Tasker for Android can help notify you if this is happening to you. From the documentation I've gathered stingray devices appear to impersonate a cell tower with a stronger signal …

I remember picking up an Omni magazine when I was a prepubescent tadpole. The cover had this amazing art that caught my eye. Guess who had drawn it? Only later did I read it and be…

I suppose this is as good a place to ask as any. I can't be the only one in this boat! I currently use an ancient Droid2 because it has a hardware keyboard with most of the charact…

My apologies. Being unfamiliar with UK law I mistakenly made the assumption that the blacklisting is legally required. However it might as well be. According to https://en.wikipedi…

The answer may surprise you. We all know the UK has internet blacklists managed by various agencies such as the IWF[1]. These blacklists are highly granular and allow blocking of i…

To add to this: Cache and cache invalidation. Without proper caching and a good invalidation strategy your databases will get pounded. Use redis and memcache to cache everything po…

I do wish they would tell us if EMET[1] is an effective mitigation for this vulnerability or not. Considering it involves memory corruption it's likely.. But finding out the hard w…

What you are describing is autoconf, not make. Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph. Autoconf.. Well, I can't disagree. It…

Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack? Even with data cap…

Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder. Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entirely strung out and exhaust…

It's really horrible that happened to this guy. It's not really AirBNB's fault but I am happy to hear they are helping him out regardless. Letting someone into your home should be …

Boxcrypter uses EncFS. Combined with the vulnerabilities discussed in this audit, this is pretty bad.

Is parsing lines of plaintext really so hard that people would want to change a well established protocol to json? I fail to see the benefit here.

My solution to cloud storage has always been encryption. TrueCrypt, Boxcryptor, gpg with a frontend, etc. If your files are properly encrypted you can safely store them anywhere yo…

I read this a few weeks ago and it was pretty eye-opening. It really goes into the economics and underhanded ways that are used to move traffic cheaply. Even if you're just a buyer…