Since its inception VirusTotal has been used by people to compare different AV products (just in case you don’t know: VirusTotal is great free service which scans the uploaded file with 40 AV engines currently and reports back the results). The AV industry has objected to this practice because ...

Reposted from the packetlife blog. We already pay for the bandwidth. The content providers already pay for the bandwidth. Anyone claiming anything different is either very misinformed or is straight out lying!

So, if I started ranting on Microsoft, here is one more thing: you should never ever use Microsoft servers if you want to scale. The reasons is simple: currently the best scaling method is horizontal (ie. buy loads of cheap hardware and distribute the load between them). Using Microsoft server ...

This post is a response to a blogpost on tudor g’s blog about software piracy issues in Romania, and as such it might not be of interest to you, dear international reader. If this is the case, feel free to skip this post.

Disclaimer: arguments are very emotional things ...

I’m expanding! Not only am I ranting on my own soap box (blog), now you can read my rants on other blogs as well: fudsec just published my Knowing Walls from Speed Bumps rant. Thank you! If you are fed up with FUD in the security industry, check out ...

Some time ago I ranted about cognitive quantum leaps. Below is a presentation given at Google by Scott Berkun about the same topic. While the talk itself is two years old, the examples are still very relevant, and he presents it very eloquently. Enjoy!