TVAddons: Telco Bailiffs Enter Operator’s Home Over Unpaid Attorney’s Fees
On June 2, 2017, Canadian telecoms giants including Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu, Bell Media, Videotron, Groupe TVA, Rogers Communications and Rogers Media, filed a complaint in Federal Court against Montreal resident, Adam Lackman. Lackman is the founder of Kodi addon repository TVAddons and someone described by the telecoms companies as a serial infringer of their intellectual property rights. The companies demanded injunctions...
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Relieved of Looming €1 Million Fine Plus €350K Damages
Former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde paid the ultimate price for his involvement with the notorious pirate site, by sacrificing his freedom. Since his release from prison over three years ago he has been busy with several old and new projects, ranging from Flattr to his art projects, and even a TV-show in Finland. However, even though he hasn’t been involved with TPB for nearly a decade, his past association still haunts...
Emacs, Vim, or something else?
Some topics are just bound to bring about a roaring argument spirited intellectual discussion. At the dinner table, it might be religion or politics. But among open source users, aside from asking about preferred Linux distributions, the next most rabblerousing stimulating question is likely around what text editor you prefer. read...
An introduction to the Tornado Python web app framework
In the first two articles in this four-part series comparing different Python web frameworks, we’ve covered the Pyramid and Flask web frameworks. We’ve built the same app twice and seen the similarities and differences between a complete DIY framework and a framework with a few more batteries included. read...
Purple testing and chaos engineering in security experimentation
The way we use technology to construct products and services is constantly evolving, at a rate that is difficult to comprehend. Regrettably, the predominant approach used to secure design methodology is preventative, which means we are designing stateful security in a stateless world. The way we design, implement, and instrument security has not kept pace with modern product engineering techniques such as continuous delivery and...
