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There is an excellent talk about Internet Voting and why this is extremely difficult [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os

devhxincon An idea for encrypted, verifiable voting

If want to know why Internet Voting won't work, you should watch Alex J. Halderman's talk at the 31c3 conference about internet voting in Estonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os

devhxincon Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China

Very interesting talk at Blackhat about the numerous security vulnerabilities CCTV cameras have such as hard coded master passwords in firmware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaI0xjeefpg

devhxincon Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

I wonder what the user experience will be since a good experience relies on content loading quickly through CDNs. Netflix mainly uses AWS, Akamai, Limelight and Level 3 along with its own CDN to deliver content. The majority of the new countries do not have local CDN edge nodes. (This is super frustrating when developing for African and some Asian countries)

It seems Netflix has an uphill battle ahead with regards to content licensing and content delivery.

devhxincon Show HN: GetHTTPSforFree.com, a no-install browers-based Let's Encrypt client

This is neat tool especially for people like me who run custom web servers or web server software that is not supported by the Let's Encrypt client.

devhxincon Hackers Are Using CCTV Cameras to Create Botnet Swarms

There was a good talk at BlackHat 2013 regarding how vulnerable CCTV cameras are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DjTcANBx0

devhxincon What Experts Love and Hate About CDNs

I love the flexibility and speed that CDNs provide however I hate the fact that if you are outside the US CDNs get very flaky very quickly. Most of the large providers don't have a Point of Presence (POP) in Africa and large parts of Europe, Russia and Asia are not covered (i.e don't have a close POP). CloudFlare and Akamai are the only companies that have POPs in Africa, it's unfortunate that small players can't use really use Akamai. Aside from the location problems, the lack and / or pricing of HTTPS / TLS really sucks.

devhxincon AP makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube

This is awesome, now can use the footage as YouTube's Terms of Service allows remixes and news reporting.

https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/fair-use.html

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