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DDoS: The Democracy of Crime

October 5, 2017by gorrie 1 Comment

My SOURCE Seattle presentation on heart of darkness style journey through startups, carriers, DDoS, and record setting disruptions by people who admit to their actions and somehow avoid consequences.

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Information Security, Internet, Politics, Presentations

Turning their game around

February 8, 2012by gorrie 2 Comments

With the rampant astroturfing happening around Facebook’s upcoming IPO, I decided to have a celebration of my own; burning all of my data. This week, I’m deleting my Facebook profile […]

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Internet, Politics

Public and Private

February 22, 2010by gorrie Leave a comment

In this brave new internet world (as of about 1995), I’ve been thinking of my personal information sharing generally as public and private. Information Classification Because of my work, classifying […]

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Biographical, Internet

Monopoly Customer Service

February 12, 2010by gorrie 2 Comments

After a few years of avoiding the cable industry, I went ahead and signed up for Comcast Highspeed2Go, a new bundled service where they resell Clearwire and combine it with […]

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Business, Internet

New Nettiqute: A simple guide to communicating with your favorite geeks.

January 20, 2010by gorrie 4 Comments

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen an updated guide on email etiquette or netiquette in general. This may be because there is about 300 guides written by out […]

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Internet

Best of 26c3

January 4, 2010by gorrie 1 Comment

Here is my list of the most important talks of the 26th Chaos Communication Congress [26C3] held in Berlin, Germany that was held last week. Since my German language skills […]

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Information Security, Internet, Technology

Swamp Computing

December 28, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

Tired of reading yet another cloud security article? This is really the only one you need to read. If you don’t have the attention span to read it all, read […]

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Information Security, Internet

Comcast Wimax

December 20, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

via clear.com Thinking about getting the new Comcast Highspeed2Go Wimax offering? I was as well since when bundled with home internet service, it’s pretty cheap. Comcast is rebranding and reselling […]

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Internet

Hosting video

September 8, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

It seems like it is getting fairly hard to find a place to host videos now that Google video has stopped accepting new content, YouTube is what it is, and […]

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Internet, Technology

Big Tech Wins: Addressbooks

February 6, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

I find that the best and most immediate use of personal technology for most people is in personal communications. For example, I did not have an organized and comprehensive set […]

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Business, Internet, Phones, Technology

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