Month: January 2017
Booker’s 2015-06 “Noe Secret” vs Old Rip Van Winkle 10 Year Bourbon
A slight departure today from my usual computer science rants (er, posts) as I do a side-by-side sampling of two of my favorite bourbons. First, let me say that I am a wheated bourbon fan, and my go-to pour is Old Weller Antique, which is a Buffalo Trace product and closely related to the Pappy […]
I still think WhatsApp has a security problem
Last week The Guardian ran a story that claimed a backdoor was embedded in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service. Bloggers went nuts as we do when it looks like there’s some nefarious code lurking in a popular application, and of course Facebook is a favorite target of everybody. I tweeted my disdain for WhatsApp moments after reading […]
What I’m Using for Privacy: Cloud
This post is part of a series on technologies that I’m currently using for privacy, and my reasons for them. You can see the entire list in the first post. tl;dr: I don’t trust anyone with my data except myself, and neither should you. If you aren’t paying for it, you are the product I think […]