Cyber Security @ VT

New hummingbird feeder presented a great opportunity to get some @ChronosCameras footage. Don't miss the "jet assisted take off" in the second clip.

Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it

The prize of the "most enlightening Wikipedia GIF so far" is given to the Dipole Antenna: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dipo…

Good morning Twitter. This post about Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallet vulnerabilities is extremely cool, and not just for cryptocurrency people. Let me talk a bit about it. 1/ saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/bre…

The app used to harvest facebook data for Cambridge Analytica also harvested it from the *friends* of users that authorised it. I was talking about how dangerous this was back in 2010. It's super common, almost nobody turns off the controls which allow it.

Since almost nobody uses cryptocurrency for payments yet, they get speculated on. In that setting, the existence of a large and technically-uninformed commmunity becomes the main determinant of value.

Almost everything that is supposedly going to get solved with blockchain can be solved with some kind of version control hosted on a central server.

* except for the drugs, the scams, the tax evasion, and payment-blockade-circumvention. I acknowledge that those are valid use case scenarios for bitcoin

The best pull request in 2017

"Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know" It is hard for humans to get the picture until you translate it to "human numbers":

Got this working finally. With some more tuning, it should hold in any orientation. I'm thinking about making a clock with levitating arms

.@joemullin and I spent months on this wild story about the man who claims he invented email. It’s out today. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Air Force linguist is not competent at high tech spying. Anonymous tip pages better update significantly -- this is what you're dealing with twitter.com/josephfcox/sta…

WTF Seriously, WTAF. 5 bloody nanometers. IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Proper machine tool engineering in action:

Encrypted traffic has a fingerprint—enough to distinguish among 200 Netflix vids with 99.5% accuracy in < 2.5 mins. mjkranch.com/docs/CODASPY17…

Demonstration of an oscillating square hole drill bit

Designing a credit card emulator card | by @_conorpp conorpp.com//designing-a-c…

Exclusive, breaking: Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author? krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is…