IMSI Catcher Research Twist, The Ridesharing Gambit →
via Andy Greenberg, writing for Wired, comes this outstanding piece on International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catchers (aka IMSI Catchers) with a ride-sharing twist in the research datastream. Today's MustRead!
Gadi Evron, 'The First Internet War in Estonia' →
via Gadi Evron, Founder and CEO at Cymmetria comes this unique retrospective view of the world's first internet-based war fought within Estonia, now, a decade removed. An outstanding historical view and well-crafted thought piece - well worth your time to read. Most Certainly, Todays' Must Read
The Ross Anderson Interview →
Les Bloqueurs d'Annonces →
via Catalin Cimpanu's well crafted reportage at Bleeping Computer comes further proof of why you must (if you value your safety whilst traversing the engrossing intarwebs) block advertising and it's concommitant data-gathering code objects (cookies, LSOs, beacons, pixels and what-not) and redirections thereto. Is it any wonder Alphabet Inc.'s Google (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) is now developing adblock code for it's own browser platform - Chrome? And, now Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) will be releasing a new version of Safari with Anti-Tracking Cookie bits we well, Get on with it then.
Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944 →
“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . . . Many thousands of men have died for such ideals as these. . . but these young boys. . . were cut off in their prime. . . I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned. . . we must find some way . . . to gain an eternal peace for this world.”
Steam Computation, Polynomial Edition
Constructed by Dr. Piers Plummer and Team (Dr. Doron Swade, Professor Adrian Johnstone and Professor Elizabeth Scott), direct from the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway University of London comes this superlative steam driven compute device... Eagle-eyed readers may note the brass bits dropping onto the floor plate of the device (due to the gear-teeth grinding against the opposing gear's cog-teeth). H/T
XKCD, State Word Map →
Another sarcastically superb analytics mapping bit of tomfoolery? No, it's the real deal - well, maybe... via the superlative talent of Randall Munroe at XKCD.