Posts

• Aug 12, 2012

  New Data Exposes BitTorrent Throttling ISPs

  TorrentFreak:

  New data published by the Google-backed Measurement Lab gives a unique insight into the BitTorrent throttling practices of ISPs all over the world.

  The full dataset, which includes Singapore ISPs, is available here.

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• Aug 11, 2012

  Backup

  Shawn Blanc:

  It’s unfortunate that many people don’t think about backing up their data until it’s too late. I can’t imagine how devastating it would be to lose weeks, months, or years worth of family photos, important documents, project folders, and more.

  Especially, in the case of Mat Honan, he lost everything just because he didn’t make usable backups (security issues are a topic of discussion for another day).

  In Shawn’s post, he talks about how to go about creating a good backup system, and must consist of the following:

  • Local
  • Off-site
  • Automated

  This provides the necessary redundancy and convenience for the unfortunate eventuality.

  If you’re still hesitating, go read the article and get working on creating backups.

  Ultimately, we all should have a system like his:

  For $10 month and very little energy I have a system that backs up my data redundantly, securely, and thoroughly. And I don’t have to initiate anything to make it happen.

  Realistically, only 10% of computer users have such a system; don’t be the 90%. It’s really simple to get going, just read his post.

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• Aug 9, 2012

  Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

  NASA:

  It looks like a scene right out from a Sci-Fi movie.

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• Aug 5, 2012

  Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco

  Troy Hunt:

  Curious, as always, I headed over to tesco.com to take a look. A few cursory glances around showed perhaps there was a bit of an opportunity here – an education opportunity for developers who like to learn from anti-patterns, i.e. seeing how those who have gone before them have done it wrong. So let’s take a look at the many simple security errors Tesco have delivered and see how we would approach this differently when applying basic security principles.

  A very insightful read. See if you can identifying insecure websites that you use daily, and be sure to use different passwords for them.

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