Articles Worth Reading

[youngunix]

Secure E-mail and Cloud Services
NSA Approves Something for Themselves
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[arp242]

So is this a general 'interesting articles' thread, or a thread to discuss the articles posted in the first post?

I'm going to guess the first. I came across this today: The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed.

I remember a few years ago I had to fix someone's Flash install; to test it I opened a random video from the Google Video homepage, without looking at what it was, and was greeted with a video of R. Budd Dwyer's suicide (safe link)...

Also this: Tough times on the road to Starcraft (that weblog contains many more interesting posts on the development of Warcraft and Starcraft BTW).

 

[fonz]

On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Anonimity Networks Using Flow Records (PDF)

 

[neel]

This: Why South Korea is really an Internet dinosaur - In South Korea, you may have 10 gigabit broadband, but you don't have online freedom. What's the point of having a 10 gigabit broadband connection when you aren't free online?

There's also another good article: Big Data and the Underground Railroad - This article accurately shows the perils of "big data" and how it can be disastrous to society.

 

[rusty]

I found this an article worth reading - Building Packages At Scale.

 

[protocelt]

https://opensource.com/law/14/12/gplv2-court-decisions-versata

You've got to appreciate the simplicity of the BSD 2 clause license when reading things such as this.

 

[jrm@]

protocelt, you misspelled RELEASE.

ADDED: The @ in front of the username doesn't seem to be expanding. Am I missing something?

ADDED: Indeed I am missing something. My brain.

 

[protocelt]

jrm, fixed and you spelled my username wrong.