The Mastodon social network is getting a great bit of buzz. In this episode I provide some initial thoughts on what is going on. You can find me at https://mastodon.social/@danyork
Apr 07
TDYR 325 – Why Every Business Needs Encryption
“Why should I care about encryption? How does it affect my business?” In this episode I give a simple example of why encryption is important for every business, government or organization. See more at http://danyork.me
Apr 05
Encryption is critical for business communication
Imagine if all your business contracts were sent to customers written on postcards. Everyone who happened to see the postcard could see exactly what you were going to charge the customer, how many of your product the customer is going to order – and al…
Apr 05
Encryption is critical for business communication
Imagine if all your business contracts were sent to customers written on postcards. Everyone who happened to see the postcard could see exactly what you were going to charge the customer, how many of your product the customer is going to order – and all of the information about the customer. Your competition, naturally, could […]
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Mar 28
Facebook Adds Stories to iOS/Android Apps to Try to Kill Snapchat
Facebook truly DESPISES Snapchat! As documented in a blog post today, Facebook has now added "Stories" to their main mobile apps. Just like Snapchat, these stories: expire after 24 hours can be either images or videos have all sorts of…
Mar 24
TDYR 324 – The Sad, Fragmented World of Messaging Systems
Our messaging systems are a mess – how do you know how to reach someone? They are spread across so many different messaging / chat systems. I wrote about this today on my Disruptive Telephony blog – and recorded this audio commentary. Here’s the blog …
Mar 24
XKCD Comic Perfectly Captures Sad, Fragmented State of Messaging / Chat Systems
In one picture, this comic from xkcd nails the very sad state of fragmentation with our messaging systems today. The text says: I have a hard time keeping track of which contacts use which chat systems. And that is our…
Mar 24
PaleBlueDot.io – a beautiful background video from space
If you’re looking for something beautiful to have on a monitor or other device in the background of, say, a home office, check out http://palebluedot.io/ It is a live video feed from the International Space Station paired with some ambient / … Continue reading
Mar 22
Rough Guide to IETF 98: DNS Privacy and Security, including DNSSEC
It is a remarkably quiet week for DNS security and privacy topics at the IETF 98 meeting in Chicago next week. Both the DANE and DPRIVE working groups are moving along very well with their work on their mailing lists and so chose not to meet in Chicago. Similarly, with DNSSEC deployment steadily increasing (as we outlined in the 2016 State of DNSSEC Deployment report in December), the work to be discussed in DNS Operations (DNSOP) is more about exploring ideas to make DNSSEC even more secure.
Here is a quick view of what is happening in Chicago.
Dan York
Mar 21
Rough Guide to IETF 98: DNS Privacy and Security, including DNSSEC
It is a remarkably quiet week for DNS security and privacy topics at the IETF 98 meeting in Chicago next week. Both the DANE and DPRIVE working groups are moving along very well with their work on their mailing lists and so chose not to meet in Chicago. Similarly, with DNSSEC deployment steadily increasing (as we outlined […]
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