The death of network neutrality and the loosening of regulations on how Internet providers handle customers' network traffic have raised many concerns over privacy. Internet providers (and others watching traffic as it passes over the Internet) have long had a tool that allows them to monitor individuals' Internet habits with ease: their Domain Name System (DNS) servers. And if they haven't been cashing in on that data already (or using it to change how you see the Internet), they likely soon will.
DNS services are the phone books of the Internet, providing the actual Internet Protocol (IP) network address associated with websites' and other Internet services' host and domain names. They turn arstechnica.com into 50.31.169.131, for example. Your Internet provider offers up DNS as part of your service, but your provider could also log your DNS traffic—in essence, recording your entire browsing history.
How cool is that. I didn’t expect the newly released movie to be based on a true story. Fun times! Thank you Jason for bringing this up.
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Yet the ability to fall asleep in two minutes or less, anywhere, anytime, is actually a skill like any other, and one anyone can learn. The technique for how to do so was in fact developed for Naval aviators during World War II, and today we’ll share it with you.
A great article explaining and debunking the idea of deep web.
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Incredible talent from Mr Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a 2016 BBC young musician recipient. His interpretation of Leonard Cohen is also spectacular. He performed in multiple venues all over the world. Its quite impressive the amount of support he seems to have this early in his career. What’s in store for him? More recording and more performances. I’ve subscribed. Well done.
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I can’t believe this happened. This is a must read with lot’s of great tidbits. It will go down in the history of beyond great. Go read it! Look at this one..
What about outside of music? What’s misunderstood about Michael?
I used to kill him about the plastic surgery, man. He’d always justify it and say it was because of some disease he had. Bullshit.
John Williams conducting the opening sequence for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. This was shot on 12/15/16 at Sony Studios in Los Angeles.
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Coincheck the Tokyo based exchange for cryptocurency was hacked. I got a feeling we will see more coming. How many were hacked this last year? I'll start gathering information in the news about hacks. Fun.
Spring cannot come soon enough!
Brian Krebs advice on securing your IoT stuff should be common sense especially based on what happened when a malware like Mirai or his brother Satori spread within the IoT ecosystem to even within cryptocurrency mining rigs. Everyone should take a workshop on securing their network with a firewall, or better yet having a network that’s not connected to the internet. These device will be more susceptible to hackers, its just a matter of time.
If you are running a variant of linux, check out ufw, the uncomplicated firewall. If you are running Windows check out this guide. If you are running MacOS check the following guide. All common routers have firewalls included already so do spend the time to read the manual and turn it on. I don’t know if I would trust every brand out there to have it on by default.
