400 Pages of Net Neutrality (I Made It Through About 40)
The FCC finally released the full 400-page text of the net neutrality order this week, and I tried (and mostly failed) to read the whole thing.
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One Port To Rule Them All (And I Don't Love It)
Apple's new 12-inch MacBook has exactly one port, and after a week of thinking about it, I've decided that's a bigger deal than the watch pricing everyone's arguing about.
The Galaxy S6 Looks Amazing and I'm Still Annoyed
Samsung's new Galaxy S6 looks incredible in photos, but ditching the removable battery and microSD slot for good is the part that's actually bugging me.
A Few Days With Meerkat
A few days spent poking at Meerkat, the livestreaming app suddenly clogging up Twitter, and why the fact that nothing gets saved might be the whole point.
The FREAK Bug and My New Weekly Ritual of Checking If Im Screwed
A new SSL bug called FREAK traces back to 90s-era export crypto restrictions, and freakattack.com will happily tell you which of your favorite sites are still exposed.
Why I Nuke the Factory Windows Install on Every New Laptop
The Lenovo Superfish mess is a lot worse than "annoying preinstalled adware" once you look at how the certificate hijack actually works, and it's got me rethinking bloatware in general.
My Saturday With Superfish
A weekend spent scrubbing the Superfish adware and its cracked HTTPS certificate off my uncle's Lenovo laptop, and why the password was the part that really got me.
The Password Was "komodia"
Spent Saturday scrubbing Superfish adware off my mother-in-law's new Lenovo, and the more I learned about how its root certificate actually worked, the angrier I got.
Superfish and the Same Old Bloatware Problem
A weekend spent de-bloating my mom's new Lenovo turned into a deep dive on the Superfish mess, and the cracked certificate password bugged me more than the ads did.
The Superfish Mess and Why I'm Done Trusting Factory Windows Installs
Lenovo's Superfish adware shipped with a self-signed root certificate using the same private key on every machine, meaning cracked HTTPS was one factory image away. A rant about OEM bloatware turning genuinely dangerous.
Still Zero for Two on the Barge Landing
SpaceX skipped the barge landing attempt on last week's DSCOVR launch because of rough seas, and I stayed up late three times for it anyway.
The Satellite Al Gore Wanted Finally Launched
SpaceX launched the DSCOVR satellite last week, an old Al Gore idea that sat in storage for over a decade before finally getting its shot. The booster landing attempt got called off, but that's not the part worth caring about.