Topic: SECURITY - on May 29, 2016 at 12:15:00 PM CEST
Tor Browser and Tails Version Fingerprint
Tor Browser and Tails version fingerprinting in Javascript (and some CSS). The PoC can also detect if Tor Browser is running on a Mac OS X. Works up to medium-high privacy settings.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 29, 2016 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables
Ah, there you are. That didn't take too long, surely? Just a click or a tap and, if you’ve some 21st century connectivity, you landed on this page in a trice.
But how does it work? Have you ever thought about how that cat picture actually gets from a server in Oregon to your PC in London? We’re not simply talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, though those are vitally important as well. No, we’re talking about the big infrastructure: the huge submarine cables, the vast landing sites and data centres with their massively redundant power systems, and the elephantine, labyrinthine last-mile networks that actually hook billions of us to the Internet.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 29, 2016 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
List of organisms named after famous people
In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar, species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in -i or -ii if named for an individual, and -orum if named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in -ae, or -arum for two or more women.
Anomphalus jaggerius Snail Mick Jagger Bumba lennoni Spider John Lennon Funkotriplogynium iagobadius Mite James Brown Montypythonoides riversleighensis Extinct reptile Monty Python Psephophorus terrypratchetti Turtle Terry Pratchett Tetramorium adamsi Ant Douglas Adams
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 29, 2016 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Privacy whiz Max Schrems set to challenge other big firms
Tech industry be warned. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems plans on setting up an NGO to enforce people's rights. The Austrian, whose case against Facebook Ireland helped unravel a data-sharing pact between the EU and the US known as Safe Harbour, now has his eyes set on taking on others who flaunt the rules. Edward Snowden, the former NSA agent who blew the lid off US-led mass surveillance, said last year Schrems had "changed the world for the better" when Safe Harbour ended up on the scrap heap of bad EU legislation. Today, Schrems, whose crowdfunded legal campaign against Facebook started when he was only a 24-year old student, is mulling a new master-plan.
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