I woke up today to Google's announcement of the Alphabet project. One day at the office and I go to sleep to Youtube's notification that one of my most watched videos (and the only one on my channel that made it to Neil Rubenking's Security Watch column on PC Magazine) has been removed for 'spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content'. Out of those 11,000 viewers, two users have reported it as potentially harmful and it was enough for teh Youtube review team to delist my video. Continue reading
Oi what? Tried to watch some one on many action posted on Facebook? Now everybody knows this. If you see yourself in this story, chances are that you clicked through this week-end's Facebook scam and now your wall is a horrid display of world's most disgusting sexual fantasies. Rest assured, you're not the only one. Continue reading
For the past two years, Lufthansa has been very close to my heart. So close that I would have taken one of their flights to work, although I'm living three blocks away from the office. Every business trip I've made, I flew Lufthansa and they never disappointed me, not even when they lost my luggage in Frankfurt. Shit happens and I know that. These trips yielded a quadzillion miles that I conveniently decided to spend in their WorldShop for Christmas presents. But alas, big mistake. Continue reading
I thought of buying the Ubuntu Messenger bag from the Canonical web shop for more than three years, but I postponed it mostly because I did not know what to expect from it. The only reviews I found on the web were Youtube videos shot in low resolution and dim lights, which made me doubt about the quality of the bag. I took advantage of my recent birthday to finally place an order. Continue reading
A news report on Wired claims that Google is looking into alternative ways of authentication to substitute the good-old password. According to the same source, the password as we know is vulnerable to social engineering attacks and hacking, not to mention leaks. Continue reading
