Government Scanning ABTests

Shodan has been scanning ports on IPV6 networks, Going Dark doesn

Using IPv6 with Linux? You’ve likely been visited by Shodan and other scanners

One of the benefits of the next-generation Internet protocol known as IPv6 is the enhanced privacy it offers over its IPv4 predecessor. With a staggering 2^128

pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers

The pool.ntp.org project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients.

New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds

For more than two years the F.B.I. and intelligence agencies have warned that encrypted communications are creating a

A/B Testing

A/B Testing is a pattern of software development where you deploy your best guess and see what people like and use.

Inside the FCC's audacious plan to blow up the cable box

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler dropped a bomb on the cable television industry yesterday with his proposal to allow any manufacturer to create cable boxes that can access pay-TV service. (The FCC is calling this plan #unlockthebox, because 1. “competitive head-end navigation” is a terrible name and 2. it learned from the net neutrality fight that no telecom company can apparently withstand the power of social media.)

Angry Comcast customer set up Raspberry Pi to auto-tweet speed test results

A Comcast customer who is dissatisfied with Internet speeds set up a Raspberry Pi to automatically tweet at Comcast each time speeds are much lower than advertised.

Google parent Alphabet passes Apple market cap at the open

Shares of Alphabet opened nearly 3 percent higher Tuesday, pushing the technology giant’s market capitalization past Apple to become the world’s most valuable public company.

Alphabet has a market cap of $547.1 billion, higher than Apple’s $529.3 billion as of 9:45 a.m. ET.


Episode 5, Season 16