Last Friday Tunisia became the latest country to be able to offer people registering domains in their country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) the higher security and trust that comes with DNSSEC. On September 26, 2014, DS records appeared in the root zone of DNS for two TLDs: .TN .تونس (xn--pgbs0dh) People who subscribe to our weekly distribution Read more…
Sep 29
I love it when a Monday morning starts with getting two blog posts out before 10 am! :-)
I love it when a Monday morning starts with getting two blog posts out before 10 am! 🙂
Sep 29
FIR #775 – 9/29/14 – For Immediate Release
Chats with Chip coming to the FIR Podcast Network; Quick News: Why we remember content with images and video, Yahoo kills Yahoo, KitKat’s Bendgate tweet eclipses Oreo’s Super Bowl win, Sobo is Vine for audio; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Say hello to E…
Sep 27
Yesterday I wrote a piece about “The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web” – at the end I
Yesterday I wrote a piece about “The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web” – at the end I also had a brief commentary on the difference between Known and Ello – http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/09…
Sep 27
3 Quick Tips About Getting Started With Ello
As I’ve started playing with Ello, the new social network that many early adopters are experimenting with (and you can find me at https://ello.co/danyork), I’ve learned a few things that I thought I’d share in case they can help others…
Sep 26
The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web
How do we retain control of our content? How can we make sure what we write and create online remains online? How do we make it so that we can post our content in one place and distribute it out…
Sep 26
CloudFlare Re-affirms Goal of DNSSEC Support By End of 2014
Over on ThreatPost, Dennis Fisher wrote about “Small Signs Of Progress On DNSSEC” reporting on a presentation by CloudFlare’s Nick Sullivan at the Virus Bulletin conference in Seattle this week. The article didn’t go deeply into DNSSEC (as our tutorial pages do) but did have this point which is key to me: Sullivan said CloudFlare, Read more…
Sep 25
Tracking The Shellshock BASH Vulnerability – News, Tools and Links
With all the attention today to the Shellshock vulnerability, I need a place to keep track of it for my own purposes. If this page or list helps anyone else, that’s great, but this is primarily a tool for me to capture what’s going on. I …
Sep 25
BlackBerry’s New Blend Application Requires IPv6 Networking
Yesterday BlackBerry held a series of events announcing their new “Passport” smartphone as well as an application called “BlackBerry Blend” that lets you use your computer or tablet (including iOS and Android tablets) in conjunction with the Passport phone. There was a good bit of media coverage, almost all focusing on the Passport phone itself. One Read more…
Sep 23
Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To Work
The big telecom story today certainly seems to the be launch of Ray Ozzie’s new "Talko" application for iOS. Tons of attention in the tech media, and many of my friends on social media have been trying it out. There’s…
