Bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption adds up to 45.8 TWh (45.800.000.000 kWh) The corresponding annual carbon emissions range from 22.0 to 22.9 MtCO2 This level sits between the levels produced by the nations of Jordan and Sri Lanka src: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302557 a […]
guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users of a system are in constant potential danger of having an […]
Update! .org NOT FOR SALE! send ICANN a thank you card! 🙂 resistance takes enormous amount of effort! but it works! democracy ain’t dead yet! and then: CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! 🙂 (do a little wiggle dance whatever!) X-D “Today, the […]
cognitive disconnectedness between governments and science: the non-sustainability mess Let’s face it… the fossil fuel powered steam engine economy … once started… is very hard to stop or slow down. also or because of: “Scientists working on the issue have […]
update: Emotet trying to spread by WIFI since 2018 https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/emotet-malware-wifi-hacking.html BUT ALSO VIA PDF! on the heise security conference last year was said: Virus Scanners since around 10 years are not sufficient anymore. (heise a computer focused news outlet […]
what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]
don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]
scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]
20-30% of positive ratings as well as negative ratings (to make competition look bad) are fake! according to gallileo magazine this website tries to filter/debunk the fake from the real ratings: https://reviewmeta.com/
“The cost to companies from malware and “malicious insider”-related cyberattacks jumped +12 percent in 2018 and accounted for one-third of all cyberattack costs, according to new research published today by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute.” src: helpnetsecurity.com logical consequence: stop […]
is when one’s life depends on (especially when closed) source code that one has not written oneself.
While “backdoors” in hardware sound like a good idea… you don’t know how hackers are using it to sabotage infrastructure or extort bitcoins of another country’s companies… see “backdoor in cisco router“. IT IS F**** DANGEROUS! ESPECIALLY if it is […]
it will kill “only” 15% of all cars, because electronics of cars/trucks already are “spark-resistant” designed, because sparky things with many many volts is going on under the hood. 2016: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Schutz-vor-einem-EMP-Angriff-3222031.html there is nothing more annoying than a backup that […]
70% of decision makers increase tech budget in 2018, slightly higher than 2017. top technologies: CyberSecurity (53%) Hardware upgrades (47%) cloud services (43%) software (40%) BigData Analytics (20%) Internet of Things (18%) 35% training employees 29% want to hire new […]