I haven’t voted for a major party candidate since 1996, and I don’t plan to change that this year. That said, the video of Erica Garner, daughter of the late Eric B. Garner and activist, endorsing Bernie Sanders for President is excellent and deserves to be shared.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
SSL Migration Progressing (Updated)
Update: I have installed SSL certificates for all of my sites which have images on this site. All of the side bar images are back up.
One of the reasons I migrated from Typepad to another hosting provider, was so I could enable SSL on my site. Making sure your site supports SSL is the one of the basic efforts you can do to support encrypting the web.
I set it up for my main domain a few weeks ago, but since some of the images I use are on sites that didn’t use https, my blog did not appear to be completely secure.
I have adding SSL to two of my (sub-)sites, and will finish the rest tomorrow. I have removed the non-SSL widgets so the site shows a nice green lock and will add them back then they are all set. As an added bonus, I removed a bunch of tracking javascript that Typepad adds to their photo galleries that I don’t need.
One up shot of this effort is that I have a nice set of instructions that work for my setup which will help speed the process in the future.
Video of Cory Doctorow speaking at Suffolk University
Cory Doctorow and others spoke at the Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University on Oct. 13, 2015. The talk was The Remote-Controlled Society. It was a pleasure to work with Suffolk and the Boston University Computer Science department to make this talk happen.
I recorded some of it and put it up at the Massachusetts Pirate Party YouTube account. Reminder to self: always use a tripod when recording video.
The Ford Hall Forum posted video of the entire discussion.
He also spoke at the Berkman Center that same day.
Boston Security Meetup Talk
I gave a brief talk on the state of government and corporate surveillance at today’s Boston Security Meetup. My slide deck is available in PDF and Open Document Format. Thanks to Akshat, Will, Ryan, Alex, Max, Chris, Lucy and everyone else who made this meetup possible. Thanks also to LogMeIn for hosting.
You can sign up for the Massachusetts Cryptoparty email list. The next cryptoparty will be Wednesday, Feb. 24th, 6-9pm, at Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville.