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Replicant: Making Android truly free
Nearly everybody knows that Android is built on top of a Linux kernel, so that should mean that it is good old-fashioned open-source software,…
MySQL website hacked
Yikes. I feel like I’ve taken a severe leaning toward being a security reporter, but I can’t help it. Every day there seems to…
Four big obstacles for cloud computing
Everybody seems hyped up about “the cloud,” so there’s a good chance you might be wondering whether your business should be getting ready to…
A new path to internet privacy: Breaking the SSL addiction
Last week, I wrote an article titled Is it time to rethink SSL?, where I pointed out that SSL’s reliance on Certificate Authorities is…
Is it time to rethink SSL?
The recent attack on the lesser-known certificate authority known as DigiNotar, and previously on Comodo, has security experts pondering the future of certificate-based encryption…
RaspberryPi — Your credit-card sized computer
For a couple of months, I’ve been watching RaspberryPi with a lot of interest, because I think these guys are about to do something…
Five easy ways to get you coding
I’ve been hacking together bits of code for years now. I’m not entirely sure how it all started, but it was probably way back…
What does the Shionogi incident teach us about Virtualisation?
There is a story that has been doing the rounds in the mainstream media of late that is really beginning to annoy me. The…
How Microsoft is changing version control for images
If you’re used to working with version control systems like CVS, Subversion or Git in order to keep track of changes to your code,…
OpenStack: Toward an open ‘Cloud’ infrastructure
Moving to “the Cloud” is all the buzz nowadays. I personally hate the terminology, and while it may seem a pretty novel concept to…
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