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Linode has been experiencing a wave of DDoS attacks in the last few days. I've noted connectivity issues at Newark and London datacenters. DDoS isn't something of a novelty, but be…

tl;dr Russia hijacked the plain, spoofed the satellite data, landed it in Baikonur and then buried under the ground.

Firing someone is never a pretty business. You can't expect it to go smooth and rational. This is a stressful moment for any employee. The least, as a manager, you could do is give…

In my case, the reason I keep using Firefox is privacy. Chrome is trying too hard to enforce the walled garden on you and collect data. There's also one "little", but very telling …

Can we please not post links behind a paywall or that require registration?

tl;dr "Please do not use ad blockers" – Ad industry

> Sometimes we even receive requests to remove content 'from the Internet' Today Google resembles the once dominating Internet Explorer of Microsoft. Except one thing - it's a grea…

What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia. It might as well be SO or any other site with…

Expectedly, tptacek is all over the infosec thread, arrogantly dissuading the public from the notion of a possible involvement of the US intelligence community :)

Amazon Echo surveillance program. Always on. For only $199.

I'm using the lite version, which is indistinguishable from the classic Winamp. It's been my default music player ever since MP3 came out :)

This will be perfect for PRISM

> A phone just under 6" This is the only reason why I am not buying this shovel of a phone.

"We shoved this product up your ass real hard, but we still failed to compete with Facebook. Today, we are taking the last step: allowing you to choose any name you want. We hope t…

For those not in the know: > Firefly is an American space western drama television series [...] The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system…

> America: Watch out how far you take the bullying America has enough power and influence to shut down any possible discontent - both within the country and of their minion states …

If Snowden didn't leak data on NSA surveillance none of the "internet giants" would care about encryption now. They'd continue cooperating as usual. What they do now is saving face…

> The lineup they have is hilarious. The request by the PRISM companies is just as hilarious as the hearing. A good show for the public to "commemorate" the one-year anniversary of…

Guidelines on how to conform to the rules of the Matrix, otherwise you may be expelled from the system into obscurity of Zion.

Reading the comments from Matt Cutts here, I see the worst is ahead of us.

> I really don't get the culture here sometimes. LGBT community has a very strong support network and is a visible target. In case of Rice, her evil-doing is less apparent and diff…

This condescending tone seems to be mandatory for karmic users of over 100K points :)

There goes my impressive uptime...