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Deploying and Optimising HTTPS for free

Posted by pdcerb on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:16PM
from the httpsiseasy.com dept.

https://httpsiseasy.com/

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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:57PM (#16729237)

Actually, they have already suspended the service for sci-hub, albeit under a court order.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/02/05/1944225/cloudflare-t...

What John Oliver got wrong about Bitcoin

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:31AM
from the blog.erratasec.com dept.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/03/what-john-oliver-gets-wrong-about.html

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:06AM (#16599450)

Although Sagan was a great educator, Maxwell and Feynman deserve much more credit than him.

Dear Mick Mulvaney: Don’t Let Equifax Off Easy

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:15PM
from the blog.mozilla.org dept.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/02/28/dear-mick-mulvaney-dont-let-equifax-off-easy/

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A Hacker Returned $17M in Stolen Ethereum

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:03PM
from the motherboard.vice.com dept.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5b4n8/a-hacker-returned-17-million-in-stolen-ethereum-coindash

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YouTube Says It Has No Plans to Ban Alex Jones

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:02PM
from the motherboard.vice.com dept.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp5me/youtube-says-it-has-no-plans-to-ban-alex-jones

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What's a Load Balancer? Rabbit Holes and Wormholes

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:42PM
from the fly.io dept.

https://fly.io/articles/whats-a-load-balancer-rabbit-holes-and-wormholes/

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Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:26PM
from the quantamagazine.org dept.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/elusive-higgs-mode-created-in-exotic-materials-20180228/

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New LTE attacks can eavesdrop on text messages and spoof emergency alerts

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:21PM
from the zdnet.com dept.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-lte-attacks-eavesdrop-on-messages-track-locations-spoof-alerts/

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Memcached, now with extortion

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:16PM
from the blogs.akamai.com dept.

https://blogs.akamai.com/2018/03/memcached-now-with-extortion.html

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OfflineBay ‘Saves the Day’ When Pirate Bay Goes Down

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:15PM
from the torrentfreak.com dept.

https://torrentfreak.com/offlinebay-saves-the-day-when-pirate-bay-goes-down-180303/

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Can India's Biometric Identity Program Aadhaar Be Fixed?

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:08PM
from the eff.org dept.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/can-indias-aadhaar-biometric-identity-program-be-fixed

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Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:03PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-users-ruled-illegal-again/

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Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @07:55PM
from the eff.org dept.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/state-lawmakers-want-block-pornography-expense-your-free-speech-privacy-and-hard

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The Problems with FISA, Secrecy, and Automatically Classified Information

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday March 04, 2018 @07:54PM
from the eff.org dept.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/problems-fisa-secrecy-and-automatically-classified-information

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The free market argument for net neutrality

Posted by pdcerb on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:02AM
from the techdirt.com dept.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171210/01533638775/free-market-argument-net-neutrality.shtml

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India Embraces Full Net Neutrality as the U.S. Turns Its Back on the Concept

Posted by pdcerb on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:00AM
from the techdirt.com dept.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171206/13482138756/india-embraces-full-net-neutrality-as-us-turns-back-concept.shtml

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PHP Adds Support for Next-Gen Password Hashing Algorithm Argon2

Posted by pdcerb on Sunday December 03, 2017 @04:28PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-adds-support-for-next-gen-password-hashing-algorithm-argon2/

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Wire, for end-to-end encrypted conversations

Posted by pdcerb on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:38AM
from the wire.com dept.

https://wire.com/en/

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What is Differential Privacy?

Posted by pdcerb on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:00PM
from the blog.cryptographyengineering.com dept.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/15/what-is-differential-privacy/

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A response to “Responsible Encryption”

Posted by pdcerb on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:22PM
from the self-post dept.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/10/response-“responsible-encryption”

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New model warns about CRISPR gene drives in the wild

Posted by pdcerb on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:12PM
from the quantamagazine.org dept.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-model-warns-about-crispr-gene-drives-in-the-wild-20171116/

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McAfee's own anti-hacking service exposed users to banking malware

Posted by pdcerb on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:33PM
from the zdnet.com dept.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/mcafees-own-anti-hacking-service-exposed-users-to-banking-malware

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FCC plans to kill Net Neutrality rules in December vote

Posted by pdcerb on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:11PM
from the tech.slashdot.org dept.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/15/2116230/fcc-plans-december-vote-to-kill-net-neutrality-rules

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Closest temperate world orbiting quiet star discovered

Posted by pdcerb on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:50PM
from the phys.org dept.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-closest-temperate-world-orbiting-quiet.html

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Austrian Supreme Court orders ISPs to block “structurally-infringing” sites

Posted by pdcerb on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:44PM
from the torrentfreak.com dept.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-1337x-must-be-blocked-austrian-supreme-court-rules-171014/

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Why cybersecurity workers are some of the hardest to retain

Posted by pdcerb on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:25AM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/11/why-cybersecurity-workers-are-some-of-the-hardest-to-retain/

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Firefox 57 brings better sandboxing on Linux

Posted by pdcerb on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:43PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-57-brings-better-sandboxing-on-linux/

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The circle of a bug's life

Posted by pdcerb on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:13PM
from the blog.talosintelligence.com dept.

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/10/vulnerability-spotlight-circle.html

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