Today’s post is the third in a three-part series on net neutrality, with the first part discussing the basics of internet routing, ISPs, and content distribution and the second part discussing how Netflix evolved their business model from a technical standpoint to overcome ISP throttling issues, and how ISPs maintain such a good negotiating position. Below, part three will […]
Today’s post is the second in a three-part series on net neutrality, with the first part yesterday discussing the basics of internet routing, ISPs, and content distribution. Below, part two will build on yesterday’s post and discuss how Netflix evolved their business model from a technical standpoint to overcome ISP throttling issues, and how ISPs maintain such a […]
Since I’m a software engineer and technologist, most people aren’t surprised that I’m strongly in favor of net neutrality. In the past few years, it’s attracted increasing media attention, and recently net neutrality has been addressed by various presidential candidates. John Oliver devoted an episode of his show Last Week Tonight to the topic, which received a lot of attention […]
I’ve always been a huge fan of the 1995 movie “Hackers”, to the point where it is probably the most watched movie in my collection. While a lot of people rightly view it as a bit cliche with some of the cheesy dialog and general 90s pop culture, to this day it is one of […]
RT published an article today whose content made my inner computer security nerd tremble with rage. This uninformed kind of writing about cryptography makes me rage, so let me explain why your LastPass passwords aren’t being traded among foreign spies as we speak. LastPass stores things in two mediums. Usernames and e-mail addresses of its […]
Anthony Turner 