As a late-term “Baby Boomer” – I grew up with black-and-white TV and an assortment of shows that didn’t need a lot of blood or sophisticated tricks, but glued us to the TV sets anyway. Time to re-create some of the magic.
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A conspiracy, a myth to destroy “our” way of living? Now that I have your attention, let’s break it down to a few simple facts.
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Whenever you talk to people about data-protection, privacy and IT-Security, there’s one common constant. It’s too complicated. The packfrog is about to change that.
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A bit chunk of breached confidential data, containing millions of e-mail addresses and passwords, were -again- made public a few days ago. How can we protect our user’s data and accounts?
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I get it. Who wants to to get audio or video screaming from a website unexpectedly? No wonder the web-browser developers thought to stop this nuisance. But their solutions creates a big problem for users and web-developers.
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What happens if one pokes a stick into a hill of fire ants? You’re in trouble. The same happened to me when I engaged in some discussions with #infosec on Twitter. What could have been a nice weekend, turned into a lot of work.
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I’ve got to tell you: If I would be working at Mozilla, I would have been sad, disappointed, maybe even somewhat angry that Mozilla’s leadership wasn’t able to ‘sell’ the Firefox engine to replace Microsoft’s Edge technology. Why is it that Mozilla seems to be unable to compete against Chromium? Read More →
PWAs .. or .. progressive web apps make it easy – in principle – to develop rich and flexible user experiences without developing 3 different versions: for iOS, Android and the web. That’s the idea – however, rivalry and different business perspectives make it far more complicated and impossible to get stuff done. Time for an open letter … Read More →
We all agree – HTTPS – the encrypted communication between WWW-browsers and servers – usually makes sense. However – under the cover of secure communications, some folks have silently pushed their version of rules into our life. And that makes things complicated – to say the least. Read More →
There are a few ways to measure power consumption, voltage or current with an Arduino. Unfortunately, the ESP8266 has a few limitations that make it somewhat difficulty to get things going. Let’s look at an easy way to achieve our task.
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