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Excellent rant about the state of SSL/TLS in the wake of Heartbleed. Plus: PGP!

Fascinating look at the domain name system and the complex DNS master key ritual. (Seems like an event that stopped international travel would keep the key locked away.)

Great pricing compared to AWS.

Trying to mitigate all of the known SSL exploits is a challenge. This document is a good summary of current best practices.

Remember your friend from the Cold War, existential terror? It's back in Eric Schlosser's new book. This is a great talk he gave about it. "The consciousness of our nuclear arsenal vanished, but the danger has never left us."

"The working consensus among technology intellectuals depicts a world of possibilities that seems starkly at odds with the American reality of skyrocketing political and economic inequality." [via anil]

"To the engineers, I say this: we built the internet, and some of us have helped to subvert it. Now, those of us who love liberty have to fix it."

Google Reader's massive database is full of Web history that no longer exists anywhere else. The Archive Team is trying to pull as much out as they can, but they need lists of feeds. I just shared my list of subscriptions. If you have an OPML file sitting around gathering dust, consider donating.

I love the historic design aesthetic of this new Submarine Cable Map.

"These constructions acknowledge a truth: our actions are increasingly passive online, and we really are just looking for something to watch, click, share and receive."

Jay Smooth speaks the truth. Conspiracy theories often work to mask the real problems in plain sight.

There's a nerdier way to get your public IP then whatismyip.com. Skip the ads and run curl icanhazip.com.

Interesting look at how MailChimp helps their employees write for different types of communication with customers. Their blog is laid back and funny. Their tweets are focused and to the point.

"And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners.  But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more." Linked everywhere for good reason--this is an excellent take on the occupy wall street movement.

Chart: the top 1 percent has been doing ok for themselves for the past few years.

Hollywood should not control DNS. I can't believe I even had to write that sentence.