Firefox’s Gonna Tattle On Trackers
A new feature called the “Tracking Protections Panel” or the “Protection Report”, is going to be included in Firefox. This Protection Report will tell users how many trackers Firefox blocked in the prior week,...
Category: code
Electrum Wallet Botnet Hack Analysis
There have been numerous “hacks” involving Electrum, with the most common ones involving “fake/modified” versions that people are tricked into downloading from unofficial sources from the outset. On average this botnet has involved more...
Top 10 Newest Tech Memes
Ah memes. The glue that keeps the internet laughing as an NSA agent watches you. During these times of no privacy, dwindling freedoms online, and cybersecurity nightmares, we need a little laughter don’t we?...
Do IT Industry Certifications Mean Anything?
The State of IT Professionals After writing some exams and reading many study guides I’ve come to the conclusion that these “exams” don’t qualify anyone. The problem is the majority of them can be...
Private Cloud Spending is Increasing not Decreasing
There has been a lot of debate in the IT world and even among some of my own colleagues about where things are heading. I think some of that comes down to “what is...
The Hype and Reality Around SDDC (Software Defined Data Centers)
There’s been growing interest and hype around software defined data centers. It sounds great on paper to have a whole datacenter in software that is portable and flexible. But people forget, that the REAL...
Smart Contracts On A Public Blockchain
Good or Bad? Smart Contracts are all the rage lately, with Ethereum bringing them into the limelight but a lot of other currencies also support them. The problem with smart contracts is that they...
Public Blockchain Breaks IT Security Standards
The thing that makes me nervous from an IT Security Administration perspective, is that I think a lot of the population has not been through the dot-com to dot-bomb era and seen the numerous...
182,000 IT Positions Available By 2019 – True or False?
I know this article is quite old from 2015 but it inspires IT professionals and business owners like me to muse aloud about the reality. It is really based on a report from the...
Thanks Linus
20 Years of Linux Milestones! This post is long over due. Summer vacation and I was taking some time to hang out with my wife and kids. So I’m a little behind. But the...
