Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
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Burying head in sand is way to cybersecurity Armageddon
https://www.news24.com/MyNews24/burying-head-in-sand-is-way-to-cybersecurity-armageddon-20180920
Opening links in Google Play Music Desktop Player
I use Google Play Music Desktop Player to play music on my laptop, and I keep forgetting the shortcut to paste a shared link in there, so posting it here for my own (and your) future reference: ctrl+shift+g Found that … Continued
PGP EFAIL
I am not going to rewrite this well written post, but since I am using and promoting the use of PGP I do need to draw you attention to EFAIL: https://efail.de/ The EFAIL attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and … Continued
Keybase.io – Crypto for Everyone.
I have been talking about online security and encryption and PGP to anyone who wants to (or doesn’t 😉 ) hear it for quite a while now. One of the main things stopping people from adapting it is ease of … Continued
Kik about to launch Kin token cryptocurrency
The Kin token was mentioned in this article on Forbes as one of the new cryptos that uses Ethereum instead of Bitcoin, meant as an example of how Bitcoin is failing in attracting new use cases and losing momentum. I’m … Continued
Forbes article on the Bitcoin soap
I recently posted a bunch of links about what I called the Bitcoin soap opera, now Forbes wrote an article outlining the same issues: Bitcoin Is At An All-Time High, But Is It About To Self-Destruct? Definitely an interesting read … Continued
The Bitcoin soap opera
For those unaware of the politics behind Bitcoin as a protocol / software (as opposed to as a currency, which gets a lot of attention every time the Bitcoin price soars), here are some links to get you started on … Continued
Moving to Digital Ocean
This website is currently hosted with Greenhost in Amsterdam. I am very happy with their service, but since I have moved to South Africa and am earning Rand instead of Euro, I need to cut costs. So I’ll be moving … Continued
Website downtime
If you tried to visit this site in the last month or so, you saw the WordPress Error establishing a database connection screen, which is never a good thing. It took me a while to figure out, but a table … Continued