pay4bugs
This is Part 1 of my 5 part series sharing my 24 hour #StartupThisSunday cross Asia adventure building the human powered website monitoring service wpFlight. My #StartupThisSunday trip of building and launching a product in 24 hours really was a spur of the moment decision. I’d had the idea
apple
There is a research paper entitled Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS announced by The Register and picked up by Macrumors claiming that security researchers have totally pwn'd Apple's sandbox security. They are quoted as saying: "We completely cracked the
pay4bugs
TL;DR: I'm building a new product today I built a new product, wpFlight.com, in 24 hours from start to launch, and doing did it all while on the road! WPFlight was a fun project and example of how a v0 MVP can be put together in
nametiles
I’m very excited to tell you about Nametiles, a way to add beautiful embedded profiles and tagging to blogs and websites. Nametiles lets you embed profile information from Passcard, a digital passport secured by Bitcoin, and tag people using their Passcard +passname on your site. End broken links If
technology
Control of your personal identity isn’t something the Internet is known for. It’s more famous for taking away control of your information and giving it to big companies can monetize it. Bitcoin blockchain technology promises to change that. Those that know me know I’m a huge fan
technology
Just finished day #4 with the Apple Watch. I keep getting asked what I think about it so I'm collecting my impressions here. Some background: I'm not a watch guy. I have little interest in expensive mechanical watches and haven't worn a watch since
privacy
Update: They have removed the tracking. Impressive responsiveness! Friend +liongrass pointed me to an organization called the "Global Commission on Internet Governance" that released a statement calling privacy "fundamental human right" on their open source website. Lofty goals and admirable words. If only their actions and
apple
Like many globe-traveling entrepreneurs, I use a lot of mobile data. In Hong Kong, my carrier slows down my data when I hit 6 gigabytes every month, so I hook up to public wifi whenever possible. While there are tens of thousands of wifi hotspots across the city, public
china
Baidu's content data network (CDN), the computers that serve Baidu analytics and Baidu ads has been hijacked and is being used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on popular developer tool Github. The China Twitterverse has been buzzing today with reports of weird javascript errors
infosec
I joined Leonhard Weese and Fabian Lischka in leading a 60 minute workshop on information security and encryption for journalists at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Central, Hong Kong. Our goal was to give journalists some basic steps they could take to improve the security of the information the collect
china
Great post about in ChinaLawBlog about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to IPO overseas and raise funds from foreign investors. Yet, the remarkable fact is that these
identity
Came across this video where a number of students in a British Chinese language school are asked whether they consider themselves British or Chinese or something else. I tweeted the link without comment intentionally hoping no one would notice and a Twitter follower called me out on it. Some thoughts: