Scary how easy it is to gain control over physical building systems.
Owning a Building: Exploiting Access Control and Facility Management Systems by Billy Rios – YouTube.
Month: March 2015
Very good analysis of the current DDoS attack that GitHub is facing, apparently over the hosting of github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes, which is used to bypass censorship in China.
The hard truths – cloud is not always the answer.
Great comment from HN:
The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance variance:
– machine latency varies more, you can’t control it
– network latency varies more
– storage latency varies more (S3, Redshift, etc.)
– machine outages are more frequent
How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware – High Scalability –.