Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Technology

  • Quote of the Day 18 December 2013 – Evidence

    “One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take…

  • Triple Quote Saturday – 14 December 2013- Imagine

    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and…

  • Tech Piece of the Day 12 December 2013 – Data Transport Protocols

    If we still have some vestige of the digital technological revolution of the last century, it is certainly the data transport mechanisms in use throughout the internet. Although maybe we should talk in plural because they are precisely two mechanisms we have inherited from our digital prehistory. These are TCP and UDP. Both data transport mechanisms have…

  • We Have A Mission

    I just joined something called the Internet Defense League — and I’m hoping you will, too. I joined because it’s important to stand up against the powerful industries that are tyring hard to lock down the net. Remember SOPA and PIPA? The people who wrote them are working on more bills to censor the internet,…

  • Iranian Hackers Compromise NASA SSL Certificate, Agency Investigates – Softpedia

      On May 16, a group of Iranian hackers and programmers operating under the name of Cyber Warriors Team claimed to have compromised an SSL certificate issued to the Research and Education Support Services of NASA. read more… Iranian Hackers Compromise NASA SSL Certificate, Agency Investigates – Softpedia.