Dave Winer, in my view the ‘father’ of blogging has written a thought provoking piece about the dangers of networking in light of North Korea’s recent activities. I thought this a particularly salient thought: “One more thing, it’s a problem that some countries are not fully on the net. That means they can attack […]
Richard Stallman at The Great Hall
Last Thursday evening I attended an event sponsored by the The NY-Tech Meetup and Code.Huffingtonpost.com. The event was held at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City. What was the event, you ask? It was Richard M. Stallman (aka RMS) speaking about “A Free Digital Society”. RMS, if you don’t know him, is […]
FreeBSD/Linux Comparison
Google was host this evening to a very lively presentation to the NY Linux Users Group. The presenter was George Neville-Neil (aka Kode Vicious) and he did a really great job illustrating the differences (and similarities) between FreeBSD and Linux. One thing he confirmed for me is the care and consideration that FreeBSD has for […]
Recently Discovered Genius – Hilary Mason
I was driving down the Saw Mill River Parkway the other day. I know I was living to NY Public Radio but I don’t remember which program was on. For what it’s worth I will say that I did search around on NPR‘s website and WNYC’s website – all to no avail. What I heard […]
The web’s dark underbelly
The New York Times published an article today entitled “Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly” about the fellow who uncovered the credit card breach at Target around the beginning of 2014. His name is Brian Krebs and he runs a site called Krebs on Security. I have been a regular reader of his blog since around […]