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Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?
I recently moved all of my domains away from GoDaddy, because they’re terrible. 1
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An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because...
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Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
Wouldn't it be great if you could call a Google Voice number directly via SIP? So that you could bypass the PSTN when calling a GV number and go directly over IP? With potentially all the advanced capabilities that could give? (wideband audio, video, etc.) It turns out that you now can !
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World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets
Arduino Websocket Client Arduino Pusher Client Pusher – Real Time Push Notifications Follow Me On Twitter: @kevinrohling If you don’t have your very own Arduino yet you should get one. …
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Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model
This is part 2 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL. [Part 1] In a previous post, we discussed some structural insecurities in HTTPS and TLS/SSL, and how those are beginning to pose serious problems for the security of the Web. In this post I will introduce a new proposal called "...
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Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Searching for "semicolon injection" bugs in embedded Linux devices
Introduction I recently bought a D-Link DCS-2121 surveillance camera. This is good stuff: Megapixel camera + microphone + speaker WiFi,...
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Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates
On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will...
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Starcraft Network
I’ll cut right to the chase: my network naming convention is spectacular. I highly suggest emulating it.
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Port 25 will be blocked for South Korea from December
Oh, boy has it been quiet here. I have used wayback machine to pull a bunch of older content into the repo so that it can be shared with you beautiful people. There was no real reason to do that except I get annoyed by broken links. Really annoyed. It seems every time I reach back into my bookmarks for something the…
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FareBot: Read data from public transit cards w/ your NFC-equipped Android phone
When it was announced that the Nexus S would have a built-in NFC radio, I immediately started thinking about the potential of using cell phones with RFID public transit fare systems. The day the Gingerbread source code was released, I picked up a Nexus S and began working on a proof-of-concept application that can…
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UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to installer
This morning on 9/13/2011 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), the uTorrent.com and BitTorrent.com Web servers were compromised. Our standard Windows software download was replaced with a type of fake antivirus “scareware” program. (UPDATE: See below for removal instructions.) Just…