Author: Andreas
-
Goodbye Servers, Hello Devices.
It’s been a wild ride for the most time of the past 9 years. The Internet came a long way and the time I spent at Akamai Technologies since 2007 were an amazing and exciting experience. Before I came there, I was working for a security consultancy, planning deployments of hundreds of Firewalls and Intrusion-Detection Systems.…
-
Cyber Tea
Just not my cup of tea.
-
Revolv Smart Home Service being shut down
Remember the Revolv home automation hub? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely flew under the radar before Google’s Nest division bought the company,… Well, neither do I remember the Revolv devices, and they’re apparently out of sale since they were acquired by Nest/Google. Now that their cloud…
-
DIY Killer Drone
Chainsaw Copter: Only in Finland.
-
Give us your password
Give us your password and we tell you how strong it is. Yes. Really.
-
Microsoft's event-triggered serverless Azure
After Amazon Web Services launched their Lambda offering in 2014, they apparently had some success. Just a few weeks after Google announced their serverless offering, today Microsoft also announced they’d be offering a technology to execute code event-driven, on demand. Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that…
-
Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled
Linux, the open source operating system that virtually powers all of webservers, billions of Android phones as it’s kernel just as well as the majority of home routers and IoT devices, turns 25 years this year. IEEE Spectrum runs an article on the history and why the open kernel became so successful. Timing, cost, and…
-
Business jargon we got used to
Everybody hates management-speak and corporate jargon, but here are some terms that people used to think of as horrible jargon that we all got used to. Maybe one day we’ll all be leveraging deliverables without a secon via: Business jargon we got used to
-
Zigbee for #IoT
Zigbee is a wireless protocol for applications not requiring lots of bandwidth, e.g. home automation, lighting or sensor networks. The idea is to create so called Personal Area Networks. The specification is standardized as IEEE 802.15.4. Dresden Electronic offers the Rasbee (Picture to the left) to get started with low budget Raspberry Pi Hardware.
-
John Oliver talks about Encryption
John Olivers ‘Last Week Tonight’ on encryption in general and the the case Apple vs. FBI in particular.