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Ian Forrester

Marriott backs off from blocking Wi-Fi hotspots but leaves its FCC petition open | PCWorld - 0 views

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    "Marriott came under fire for its hotspot blocking policies last year, when the Federal Communications Commission slapped the hotel chain with a $600,000 fine. Hotel management had been preventing hotspot use"
Ian Forrester

Facebook blocks Admiral's car insurance discount plan - BBC News - 0 views

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    Facebook has blocked plans by an insurer to view young drivers' profiles to help set car insurance premiums.
Ian Forrester

A gentle introduction to self-sovereign identity - Bits on Blocks - 0 views

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    A gentle introduction to self-sovereign identity - Bits on Blocks
Ian Forrester

This is Why People Fear the 'Internet of Things' - Krebs on Security - 0 views

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    "Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. Now imagine that the geek gear you bought doesn't actually let you block this P2P communication without some serious networking expertise or hardware surgery that few users would attempt."
Ian Forrester

Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements - curl -sSL https://instal... - 0 views

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    "Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware No client-side software required Install by running one command: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash"
Ian Forrester

Burger King hijacks the Google Assistant, gets shut down by Google | Ars Technica - 0 views

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    Burger King hijacks the Google Assistant, gets shut down by Google Burger King's ad invokes the "OK Google" hotword to advertise fast food; gets blocked.
Ian Forrester

CoBox - Building blocks for the cooperative cloud - 0 views

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    "CoBox is a distributed, encrypted, offline-enabled data hosting cloud platform."
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