Before reviewing Wuala I would like to offer my apologies for my prolonged absence. I have been without a stable internet connection for roughly a month due to the incompetence of the telecom cartels in my country.   All I hear these days are fearful whispers about how unsafe the cloud is [...]

This morning I woke up to this e-mail–   WordPress Firewall has detected and blocked a potential attack! Web Page:   thomasxavier.ca//wp-content/plugins/1-flash-gallery/upload.php?action=uploadify&fileext=phpWarning: URL may contain dangerous content! Offending IP:   178.137.167.112 [ Get IP location ] Offending Parameter:   $_FILE = index.bak.php   This may be a “Executable File Upload Attack.” Click here for more information on this [...]

  Last Wednesday as part of operation #opmegaupload, Anonymous widely deployed its most interesting tool to date: a stripped down version of LOIC in a web format [example: here]. While this tool was widely reported to have been abused by unethical ”anons,”  I feel that the media has disregarded an interesting side effect of the new tool: it [...]

    Yesterday I stumbled from my bed to the news that SOPA was for all intents and purposes dead with Congressional Representative Eric Cantor deciding that he would not bring SOPA to the floor. Unfortunately this recent case of legislative madness refuses to lay down and die as Lamar [...]