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April 20, 2015
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Jokers, hackers, and airline safety

Chris Roberts, security researcher and founder and CTO of One World Labs, is well known for speaking his mind on airlines not taking in-flight networking security seriously. They may not, but the FBI does. After Roberts tweeted, “Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? :)” He found himself detained at the next airport for four hours and his gear confiscated.

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April 19, 2015
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Containers: In the beginning

Today, containers are the hot topic of cloud computing. With them, system designers and cloud architects can have as many as six times the number of server applications on a hardware server as you can with a virtual machine (VM).

But, for all the excitement about Docker, the headline container technology, and how even Microsoft has embraced this open-source technology, we’ve never really looked at containers’ origins. You see, this “new” technology is decades old.

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April 15, 2015
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NGINX releases new full-featured web server

NGNIX‘s slogan should borrow Avis’s iconic tagline, “When you’re number two, you try harder.” While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX’s 14.4 percent – by Netcraft’s web server count — NGINX is trying hard with its latest update, NGINX Plus Release 6 (R6), to challenge Apache for the top spot.

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April 15, 2015
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To dream the impossible dream: Privacy on the net

Remember Jennicam? Back in 1996, Jennifer Ringley decided to record her life one image at a time every three minutes. Her life blew up. Her site briefly became one of the the top 10 most popular sites on the web. She was on Letterman, her story made it to The Wall Street Journal, she appeared on This American Life, and her public/private life spiralled out of control. She left the internet in 2003. She hasn’t really been back.

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