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Sony Pictures has been compromised last month. Many internal documents were released on November 24th, responsibility was claimed by a group called 'GOP' (Guardians of Peace). The amount of data stolen from them was estimated at 100TB (in other words: A LOT and then way more than more).

I've decided to create a new website just for my photos. I felt that mixing them up with this website doesn't really work. So voila Itsik.net.

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform where projects, or "cool" projects can gather capital from people in return for some goodies (but not always). Each project offers whatever compensation they want and it may differ dep...

The Dark Mail Alliance has sent out their first email, and sadly it's borderline marketing spam.

The Dark Mail Alliance is basically Silent Cirlce and Lavabit teaming up to work on new things such as email with end-to-end encryption...

I've seen way too many comments about people using VPNs and/or Tor as a shield to any kind of possible breach of privacy and/or security in general. I'm going to attempt to explain very simply what they do, because these are good tools, but using them the wrong way can void their purpose.

I've already ranted a few times about EME and how it's bad and all that. In this post I want to point out one specific aspect, how EME can be used to exclude users to content based on their software and/or hardware choices.

Quick brief, EME is nothing...

As written on the W3C's Twitter feed: Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. joined W3C (no period at the end of the sentence either, standards are already breaking apart).

Microsoft, Google and Netflix have already been hacking away at the W3C's v...

I'm tired of hearing this: If I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear. There are so many things wrong with this phrase, yet so many people repeat this whenever there is a discussion about the latest story about governments spying on everyone.

Sometimes you mig...

Internet in the UK is messed up in it's own original way. Indeed, censorship is mostly voluntary.

The main ISPs in the UK have been getting very busy setting up systems to block access to certain websi...