Feb 13
Following federal agents seizing the first iteration of the online blackmarket Silk Road, the illicit store was reincarnated as the Silk Road 2. In recent times, a so-called “transaction malleability” … Continue reading
Feb 13
If you take a picture of a car or house key, could you use that picture to get a copy made? Yes—quite trivially, actually. I have a folder on my laptop that is filled with photos people have taken of their keys and put onto the internet. Every few weeks, I take some idle time and associate one of those keys to an address (lot of Googling, mostly) and then I decode the cuts in the key.
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Feb 13
Comcast has confirmed that it’s going to buy Time Warner Cable to form a huge, tangled monster of awfulness
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Feb 13
To the consumer, having a municipal broadband network in your city probably sounds like a great thing. It could get you better speeds and lower cost. To the major ISPs, … Continue reading
Feb 12
President Obama has launched the new Cybersecurity Framework, the Whitehouse’s guide for infrastructure providers like gas, electric, and water, as well as banks and power plants to fend off digital … Continue reading
Feb 12
Fast internet is fast. Google Fiber’s gigabit connections? That’s like driving a sports car compared to the go-cart-speed connection that’s probably in your house. But new technology from IBM opens the door for connections that are beyond fast. Comparatively, it’s like flying a fighter jet.
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Feb 12
Mozilla has revealed an upcoming change to Firefox that may not sit well with all its users: advertisements. Specifically, according to details given at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s recent meeting, … Continue reading
Feb 11
Earlier this month, Twitter’s new interface rolled out largely to the social network’s users following the announcement back in January. It appears this isn’t the end of the company’s upcoming … Continue reading
Feb 11
In a write up today, Greatfire.org, a website that revolves around the issue of China’s Internet censorship, published a report expressing concerns about Microsoft’s Bing search engine, claiming results for … Continue reading
Feb 11
Everybody’s been freaking out in the past couple of weeks by news that South Korea is building a new broadband network that will be 50 times faster than the average connection in the United States. That’s fast! Too bad South Koreans won’t be able to use maps or access thousands of sites.
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