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Wednesday, 12 August 2015 14:54
A security researcher's lot is not a happy one, but it should be
Written by Sean Kalinich
The life of a security researcher is not all beer and pizza. In most cases the days are long and very few seem to appreciate what you are doing. From the stand point of a security researcher they are the…
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Thursday, 23 July 2015 09:25
Has the glut of IoT devices given the game to the Bad Guys?
Written by Sean Kalinich
For a while now (many years actually) I have argued that the rush to turn everything into a techno-gadget has been irresponsible and dangerous. However, companies that are looking into the “Internet of things” simply do not care. They see…
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Tuesday, 16 June 2015 14:35
Privacy: it doesn’t mean what you think it means
Written by Sean Kalinich
The term privacy has come to mean a great many things in the last few years. To some the idea of privacy is being able to do or say certain things without the fear of anyone finding out. Most people…
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Today I was asked why we do not attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It was a valid question, but the answer is not really all that simple. If I had to be blunt I would say that we stopped…
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015 11:13
When did we start letting marketing control the message?
Written by Sean Kalinich
The world of the technical press has been evolving since it stumbled on the scene back in the mid-1990s. At that time the world seemed to be open to anyone with access to a website and willing to spend a…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:04
It looks like AMD is betting the farm on 2016 and 14nm
Written by Sean Kalinich
A couple of days ago we published an article on the state of AMD and what their immediate (next 18 months) looked like. In that article we looked at the state that AMD is in right now with what they…
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Thursday, 09 April 2015 11:34
The Apple Watch gets reviewed: or How to Polish a turd.
Written by Sean Kalinich
So Apple has released review samples to the press in order to build up interest in their entry into the smart watch market. It is an interesting move for Apple as they have sent out their $1,000 product to a…
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Monday, 30 March 2015 14:58
AMD's R&D spending plummets as they rely more and more on R&D partners
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is an old saying in business that you have to spend money to make money. The meaning is sort of plain, but we will give you a clear example of what it means. In the tech world, if you…
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Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:12
NASCAR's Fan and Media Engagement Center Makes 'Creepy' Data Collection a Good Thing
Written by Sean Kalinich
Data collection, monitoring, storage, and mining are simply part of our online lives. If you connect to a site, it is going to collect some information about you. If nothing else it will collect the session information (IP address, time…
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Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:25
Gaming on the side, how side quests are making AAA games.
Written by Sean Kalinich
The days of the long campaign game are almost dead and gone. Since Half Life 2 we have not really seen a game with the same sprawl even with its linear path. The reason for this is that game developers…
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Monday, 16 February 2015 13:13
The problem with messenger applications... there really is no privacy and never was
Written by Sean Kalinich
There are many things that people take for granted in the world. Some of them are more than a little naïve while others are quite understandable. One of them is that the things we say or do in conversation are…
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Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:41
Politicians use bad numbers to push Kill Switches on phones... again
Written by Sean Kalinich
The wonderful topic of “kill switches” in smart phones has arisen again with three major cities claiming a directly connection between iPhone theft and the addition of a kill switch into Apple devices. Now the news is pushing stories with…
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:36
Valve removes and replaces the game Hatred in project Green Light
Written by Sean Kalinich
Valve has decided to remove the game Hatred from their project green light program and the decision has been met by strong comments for and against the move (which has led to them putting it back). The game is, shall…
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Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:26
Taking down The Pirate Bay is not going to change anything
Written by Sean Kalinich
It was only a couple of days that the internet broke open with the news that The Pirate Bay was offline and that their offices had been raided by police. It looked like the end of the world for the…
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Monday, 24 November 2014 06:46
Samsung and NVIDIA are throwing vague patents around inside a broken system...
Written by Sean Kalinich
The US patent system is broken. There is not really much more to say about that it is and has been broken for many years and probably will continue to be broken for many years to come. Now why am…
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Thursday, 20 November 2014 20:04
Keeping the Backdoor open... how the NSA's collection of 0-day exploits hurts us all
Written by Sean Kalinich
The world lives in fear of zero-day exploits although the average person does not even know it. A zero-day exploit is a bug or a flaw that has not been discovered by the developers yet, but is known to someone…
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