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  • The case that could rock the cloud world

    The case that could rock the cloud world

    Microsoft is currently before the US Supreme Court on a case that will have vast global ramifications. In a nutshell, the US government served Microsoft (US) a subpoena for data from Microsoft (Ireland) for data which was stored on servers in Ireland. Microsoft’s position is that it obeys the laws of Ireland while there, and…

  • A feral cat IoT army for misdirection: the invisible hand and national defence

    A feral cat IoT army for misdirection: the invisible hand and national defence

    OK, we’ve talked about Outdoor Kitty before. His relationship with me is directly the inverse of the temperature. Colder temperature == friendlier cat. Lately we’ve above zero temperatures so he’s not around much. Now, one of the most frequent questions Sonya asks me is, ‘where does he go’, ‘can we attach a tracker to him’…

  • Radon & You. Yes, you.

    Radon & You. Yes, you.

    Live somewhere? Does it have a ground floor or basement? Then you are at risk for Radon and thus lung cancer. And I recommend you buy the Airthings Wave to find out. 380 people died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning from 2000 to 2009 in Canada, about 38/year. And 3200 died from Radon last year. It kills…

  • Recognising popunder advertisements with machine learning: an implementation

    Recognising popunder advertisements with machine learning: an implementation

    Earlier I talked about crypto-malware spread via popads, an advertising network that does popunder advertisements, and uses a domain-generation-algorithm as a means of avoiding blocking by e.g. adblock. In that I postulated that one could use a neural network to detect the difference between ‘wwiqinsra.bid’ and ‘foobar.com’. Well, I decided to give it a try.…

  • Cryptokitty: collectable, breedable, adorable. This is meow life now

    https://www.cryptokitties.co/. You buy a virtual cat with virtual currency. And then, unlike regular cats, you pay to get them knocked up and have kittens. But its ok, its with virtual currency. Is this the end-goal of the ‘I own nothing’ world we are entering, where uber + self-driving cars instead of owning, airbnb instead of…