Morphling

It's easy to say that from the comfort of your home it's quite different when you might face dying in a crossfire or in another drone attack.

You are still making a connection through an unknown third party host, which kind a negates the encryption on the last part of the journey.

The thing is that I doubt anyone is actually running a malicious server that would login to your honeypot as soon as it gets your credentials, at least I would let the username/password list collect for couple of months before checking it and even then I wouldn't blindly hit everything.

But the thing is that thous TOR exit points (just like Proxies) can inject all kinds of JS on the sites they display and while some people run NoScript or similar browser extensions most do not.

And giving out your username/password combinations for scriptkiddies and criminals and allowing them to run any JS on sites you visit does hell of a lot more short term damage than any government surveillance, losing all of your possessions in an identity theft or just getting phony bills is way worse for your average consumer than having their Facebook chat logged.

Tor is a good tool when used properly, but slapping it on to everything isn't what the tool was made for.

So, it's convenience? Which is okay, I guess I'm just so used of setting up stuff like that, that I didn't even consider it a "restraint", but now that I think of it I can see how for some people it's not worth the time to struggle through the setup process and just pay the fee.

I don't mean to be negative, but why should I pay $29/year for blogging platform when I can install something like Jekyll on a free Heroku (or insert your favorite PaaS) and host my posts on another free blogging site, like Tumblr.

Basically I'm asking what's so great about Silvrback over other free alternatives?

A quick question what kind of IDE do you use when developing?

Couple things about the sites, you might be - as you said - good with HTML and CSS, but you don't have very good design sense. The pages you've linked don't look visually appealing, at least to me.

Also you say on your page that your websites are "coded to W3C XHTML strict guidelines.", but noelvock.com uses HTML5 doctype (as everything should imo) and wildhives nets almost 30 validation errors.

It's a good start and at least you are putting yourself out there, but these would be the things you'd get burned for from my experience.

I know this post is about speed, but you should always remember that with node.js you only need JS developers while with Go you are probably going to need both Go and JS (for front-end stuff) developers.

Just my two cents.

I can't say that I can pop the hood of my car and instantly know what's wrong, but I can change oil, tiers, lamps and battery and add necessary liquids. I don't know if that's a lot, but I like to think I know something about cars.

I get your point and I usually try to gage the techincal level of the person I'm helping and how interested they are in learning new stuff and explain/fix accordingly, but the author still has a point, way too many people these days have no idea how to do anything on a computer and the situation only gets worse when parents try to tell the world that their kids are "tech natives" when in fact they know nothing more than how some socialnetwork's UI works.

For example I graduate couple years ago from basic computer science vocational institution where we learned how computer hardware works, how to install a new OS and basics of web developement (PHP & MySQL), but now all of my former class mates contact me for tech help through skype even though they should all be "IT literate", but it was just a degree with for most of them, something to waste couple years on to figure out what they wanted to do.

Now I'm studying a computer science engineering degree and easily 1/3 of my class mates have no idea how to code or even how to use basic HTML and CSS tags and we've been at it for 2 years now, sure they are passing "Java 101", but if you gave them a task to write a piece of software most would just raise their hand in air and state "I can't do that" without even giving it a go and I know this I've been trying to recruit new blood to tech club where we write simple apps for Android phones for fun, experience and credit.

As Linux currently is answer would be: No! There are a lot things that are extremely wonky on Linux and few things that works extremely well, but for me positives don't out weight negatives on a desktop thou.

Would I ever pay for Linux distro? Quite possibly, but only if the software capabilities on the platform catches up with the competitors, for one I like playing games on my PC and as it currently stands I get sever performance losses and tons of graphical glitches which is a driver problem and as such not so much a distribution problem.

As for now I will continue running Linux on my laptop and servers, but my desktop will stay Windows for the foreseeable future.

This "attack vector" is relying on the fact that you get physical access to the targets router/switch, so you can connect to the network and I think network admins would stop extra PSU in their networking closet pretty fast.

Which started me thinking... What if you would build RPi or similar small device into a router's casing and made it act like a router on the same time. Obviously you'd have to have some way of copying configs over from the old box to the impostor box, but it could be harder to spot since there wouldn't be any extra hardware.

Don't quote me on this, but I think Python is more wildly used than Ruby as a language, but not on the web and it's popularity on the poll might have to do with Rails now falling off little since it's not the shiny new toy anymore.

Everyone seems to be all up in Python right now and I don't know why.

I'm pretty much a JavaScript guy, but lately I've been writing a lot of stuff with Ruby for work, so I might give a Rails a try, really depends on what we'd be building.

And while I'm commenting I might as well add at at this point if I wouldn't touch PHP or Java with a long stick. I can barely sleep at night when I think of all the people who still write Java on browser...

It would really help if you'd voice your opinion in by also commenting why you feel one way or another.

I don't see Glass creepy in anyway, they look kind a goofy, but that's their only bad feature I've seen this far. I'm not saying that Glasses are super useful, but they are in same boat with tablets, they are cool, but not necessary.

Yes, it is true that most students in Finland do take the government backed student loan, but I for 't taken it. I get few hundred euros student welfare from the government and rest I make up with part time jobs and working summers + living in a student housing is pretty cheap.

I'm actually attending HAMK University of Applied Sciences which only produces engineers for different fields.

I'm sure the "bigger players" like Aalto Univeristy or University of Turku are of higher quality, but I can't judge since I've never attended neither.

I get that paying for your education is pretty bad, but as someone who is enjoying free bachelor level education in Finland I can tell that the amount of quality teachers is pretty low, our small campus has maybe 4 teachers I'd consider competent.

I'm also the kind of guy who'd enjoy extracurricular clubs, but sadly out of the few hundred students at our campus total of 3 of us (me included) are interested in club activities and only student body event that gets more than 10 people attending is yearly "drinking cruise".

I can't say for sure that these two things are related, but I have a hunch that since people aren't actually paying for their education most don't take it as seriously and thus people just do the bare minimum they can get away with. Or maybe it's just the general level of education which is so much lower nothing feels "real" at least considering how much I read U.S. based engineering students whine about...

" The printer used by Cody was a $8,000 second-hand"

I really like the simplicity. Finnish versions are kind a lame. ( http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/multimedia/archive/00059/sormu... )

I'm really curious in what legit situation this kind of "account recovery" would be needed.

Like you forgot your email address and/or password so you can't recover you skype account via that way?

Same in Finland. .com and .se just show "Website not available", but .is works just fine, but we'll see if it gets blocked as well or not.

I have high hopes from the project and I will most likely back it, but I found the last document by the director: "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" some what lacking.

I guess it was more about trying to bring the story to your average Joe rather than dive in super deep, I get that they have to cover the basics for larger audience.

I've tried meditating few times, but I'm too impatient for it. I can sit quietly, focusing only on my breathing for 10-15 minutes and then I just have to do something.

I can't understand the point behind this article. There are already so many (more) invisible ways of recording a person in public than Google's Glasses.

"But I don't want to be recorded!"; Fine, that's a valid point to make, but 99,9% of cases no one even wants to record you.

"But someone might hack in my Glasses and then record without me knowing"; Again valid concern, but no one wants to hack into your Glasses to see what's happening around you.

I'm not saying we should just ignore security completely, but saying that Glass are just bad for privacy is kind a over kill in my opinion.

Root kit which can monitor your email and social networks. Oh no! Are you telling me that someone can read my plain text emails or check my facebook for what I publicly post there!?

Man, I just wish a big company like Google was interested in me, but since I just mostly suck at everything that will never happen.