I’ve been hearing people on the ham bands ignorantly talking about cryptocurrencies, so I thought I’d offer the case for the one that has real value, Bitcoin. In essence Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency protocol for trustless financial transactions using public/private…
Update: My Chromecast was fixed Friday, six days after it was broke. I also had some issues using Google Home to reconfigure my gen 3 Chromecast I moved to the living room, which was eventually fixed as well. Google is…
I just referenced fellow AT&T employee Mark Klein a couple days ago, and with sadness we learn he just passed. The sad part about his whistleblowing, is it didn’t really change much. Hopefully before being a whistleblower he cleaned out…
I have one of these devices, and I first noticed it Sunday when trying to cast to the TV. I was thinking they went end of life as they did get a pretty good support period. Though, as compared to…
This is a pretty interesting opinion piece for this one idea as the government does watch everyone’s communications. This goes back to a retired AT&T employee Mark Klein that became a whistleblower for a secret system put into one of…
A very good recap. And it would seem the push of Bitcoin up to $107,000 or so was fueled by people thinking the Bitcoin Reserve would be the government buying Bitcoin as we’ve currently dropped to $80,283. Basically the government…
Beyond vulnerabilities built into devices by state sponsors, many devices barely receive firmware updates and are abandoned when the company moves to new models. The whole internet of things is a security minefield of vulnerable devices, so rethink that smart…
You might want to inspect or watch your old Warner Bros. DVDs so you can request a replacement if they’ve rotted. Or rip it to a backup drive. Technically illegal, but you could torrent it as well and you did…
A great recap of how we learned about Venus and how Russia sent back pictures. Given the pressure, acid rain, and 900 degree temps, it was feat of engineering, especially for the time, to get the probes to last until…
Depending on your threat model, this might be worth deploying. This looks like it only works with Verizon, and seems to take a sim card so it might work with MVNOs (resellers which are a great way to get a…
Given that Russia is working towards the same technocratic goals as the west contrary to how it appears in the world theater, this is a telling plan of how they will get society to accept a CBDC to control how…
This Harley overview made me chuckle.
