Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Boats Illuminate Bangkok from Space
To attract the phytoplankton, fishermen suspend green lights from their boats to illuminate the sea. When the squid chase after their dinner, they’re drawn closer to the surface, making it easier for fishermen to net them. Squid boats often carry up to 100 of these green lamps, which generate hundreds of kilowatts of electricity—making them visible, it appears, even from space.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Benni • August 22, 2014 5:25 PM
It seems that soon, one can really begin to use tor:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28886462
British and American intelligence agents attempting to hack the “dark web” are being deliberately undermined by colleagues, it has been alleged.
“You have to think about the type of people who would be able to do this and have the expertise and time to read Tor source code from scratch for hours, for weeks, for months, and find and elucidate these super-subtle bugs or other things that they probably don’t get to see in most commercial software.
“And the fact that we take a completely anonymous bug report allows them to report to us safely.”
He added that he had been told by William Binney, a former NSA official turned whistleblower, that one reason NSA workers might have leaked such information was because many were “upset that they are spying on Americans”.