Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Category: Technology

  • Simple fix to protect your Windows machine from Russian ransomware hackers

    Simple fix to protect your Windows machine from Russian ransomware hackers

    I was reading Brian Krebs’ blog, krebsonsecurity.com, and came across this odd little trick you can use if you’re a Windows user and are deathly afraid of Russian ransomware hackers. In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides…

  • Tech behemoths battle to wall off podcasting

    Aside from the news up in Minnesota other things are happening in the world and what happened today that has implications for free speech. Apple announced Apple Podcast Subscriptions. The purpose is to compete with Spotify and some of the latest upstarts in the podcast space. This has free speech implications because Apple controls the…

  • Intel pulls a T-Mobile

    This smacks of desperation. I’m not an Apple user. I’m an old school Apple hater. I don’t like their locked down ecosystem and can’t stand their operating systems. But I am a fan of some of their hardware and I wish I could use it with other software. Intel must really be feeling the pressure…

  • Online advertising model smells like fraud

    Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and more shove ads into your content. I always had the opinion that online advertising and the way these companies make money with it smells like bullshit. Online advertising dollars has always been bullshit. Starting all the way back in the early days of the Web and banner…

  • Get off Telegram now

    When the ads start rolling your speech stops flowing. Telegram will have to convince advertisers that its audience is broad, which could be a challenge following reports that far-right groups and white supremacists flocked to the app after being banned from other platforms. Mr. Durov will also have to satisfy Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s…

  • If I had to work via Zoom

    I can barely use a cell phone with all the digital compression. I can’t imagine how bad it would be on a video call.