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The darknet's smaller than we thought: The life cycle of Tor Hidden Services Abstract The Tor Darknet is a pseudo-anonymous place to host content online frequently used by criminals to sell narcotics and to distribute…

Someone told me this conspiracy in all honesty. The Bay Area is returning to more normal weather. The rain, winds, and temperatures are about average for this time of year. It coincides with the US…

Many, many years ago I owned and ran asciifun.com. Mostly it was created as a way to paste figlet output into code comments and other random stupidity happening on irc networks. Back in 1999, this…

In casual conversation with a friend, we're talking about scaling companies and the fun and challenges of growth at small companies (less than 50 employees). When he says, "Hey, our main log server is getting…

Honored to attend the 36th Annual meeting of Specialists on Crimes Against Children. This is my third year attending. This year the meeting is in Singapore. Finally get to spend some time in Singapore. It's…

With the imminent demise of Google+, I figured now is the time to export my data and import original posts to this blog. Simple thought, complex implementation. It's trivially easy to find instructions on the…

https://mastodon.is A few months ago, I setup a mastodon instance. Mostly to play around with it and mostly to see who is there. Basically, think of mastodon as twitter or instagram if everyone ran their…

The most expensive item on openbazaar is a mere $63.1m.

Recently, I've been using various APIs from the bash shell. It's an exercise in response to, "can it be done?" There is no other point. These are loosely tested and probably insecure in various ways.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HTCIA/status/1031519352917504000 Speaking at HTCIA this week on darknet investigations. http://www.htciaconference.org/