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.
It's Blue and Black, Obviously
A week-late rant about the dress that broke the internet, why the color illusion actually works, and what it did to somebody's servers.
Blue-Black, White-Gold, and an Argument I Lost
A few days late to the internet's biggest argument of the week: why my wife and I looked at the same dress photo on the same screen and saw two completely different colors.
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.
Superfish Scared Me Into Finally Setting Up 2FA
The Lenovo Superfish mess finally scared me into setting up two-factor authentication on everything. Here's the order I did it in and why it matters.
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.
Checking For The Superfish Certificate
A step by step look at checking your Windows machine for the Superfish root certificate that shipped on Lenovo laptops, plus what happened when I checked my dad's.
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.