Recently, I discovered Darknet Diaries, an amazing podcast produced by Jack Rhysider, covering true stories from the dark side of the Internet. Stories about hackers, defenders, threats, malware, botnets, breaches, and privacy.
Episode #13
In 2012 the Carna botnet was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn’t have any intentions on doing anything malicious. It was built just to help us all understand the Internet better. This botnet used the oldest security vulnerability in the book. And the data that came out of it was amazing and looks like this on a map. You might have to click and enlarge image to see the animation.
Relative IPv4 utilization observed using ICMP Ping requests
The Carna botnet was used to scan the internet to create a map of where all the public facing computer are in the world.
You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
A couple of days ago I enabled nightly builds on this blog to be able to test out WordPress 5.0 with the new Twenty Nineteen theme prior to its official release, which is supposed to be happening sometime today. Just in time for WordCamp US which starts tomorrow. I hope the State of the Word keynote by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will be streamed online. It will take place on Saturday, December 8 at 4:00 pm Nashville time, which should be 11:00 pm Zürich time if I’m not mistaken.
Naishville Music City Center – Picture courtesy of Mary Clippard
I never attended WordCamp US before and also skipped WordCamp Europe this year, but I’m already looking forward to attending WordCamp Europe 2019 which will be taking place in Berlin. I already have my ticket.
WordCamp Europe 2019 Theme Moodboard
Today, I updated the de_CH (Deutsch/Schweiz) translation for Twenty Nineteen from de_DE (Deutsch/Deutschland), so for the informal version, the translation is now at 100% which means that you should see all text strings on this site which are part of the theme in German. Sort of funny that I’m writing this in English, but this blog is bilingual and I mainly choose the language based on the type of content I’m writing. And also depending on the current mood.
I already found one («Leave a comment») that is not being translated, but maybe I just have to wait a little longer for the next autoupdate to kick in and download the latest de_CH language pack for me.
I really like the new Gutenberg-enabled Twenty Nineteen theme, especially the blog post detail page with the full page background image. The header with the social media icons is also very pretty, although I haven’t found out yet how to add the commas after each main menu item.
How do you like Twenty Nineteen? Are you using a theme that will add Gutenberg support anytime soon?
The recording of this music video by one of my favorite bands of the 90s forced the New York Stock Exchange to close in 2000. It’s been almost 19 years since Rage Against The Machine teamed up with documentarian and political activist Michael Moore for this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI
The band – Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk – all climb the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial and begin to play.
There’s a man walking around with a ‘Donald Trump For President 2000’ placard. Who, in their right mind, would elect him into office?
Scene from the Rage Against the Machine music video
The «funny» thing is that in 2000 also the Simpsons «predicted» Trump as president.
The Simpsons Episode from the year 2000
But back to Michael Moore: His latest political documentary released in September 2018 is about the 2016 United States presidential election and the subsequent presidency of Donald Trump. The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
