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02 Oct 2021

The 376 Spam Emails Deadline Hollywood Sent in Less than 2 Weeks

Over the last few weeks I was chatting with other people on the Frantech matrix server about a dodgy anti-DDOS provider named Bytefend. Strangely, the people on that matrix server who were about the dodgy goings on with Bytefend, including DDOS attacks against Frantech and others and their hosting of Doxbin

04 Jul 2021

Building a website without becoming a ‘soydev’

You will always hear of large media companies crying about how piracy is killing their industry, even if the evidence for these claims are uncertain with some studies claiming small positive, small negative or near-no affect to sales of media, depending on the type of that media.

13 Apr 2021

A Starbucks 'Pumpkin Spice Latte' or plant 50 Trees?

Online, you will see many pro-environmental people who also enjoy Starbucks coffee. Those people will talk about how everyone needs to give up luxuries to save the planet.

10 Apr 2021

The Rigged Game of 'Build Your Own DDOS Protection'

Whenever you see a controversy website being ‘cancelled’ by its Anti-DDOS service provider. There will see many comments on social media, cheering on the company for censorship.

21 Jan 2021

A Paywall Is Not Acceptable to Revoke SSL - a Response to Pro-CF Comments

Most communities rightly accept that for a CA, such as CloudFlare, it is not acceptable for them to ignore requests to revoke a SSL certificate.

20 Jan 2021

The Irrevocable SSL certificates of CloudFlare

moved this website ‘worldofmatthew.com’ away from CloudFlare back in August 2020.That should have been the end of the relation with CloudFlare for my website.

14 Dec 2020

Don’t Give Your Content Away for Free to Tech Giants

You will always hear of large media companies crying about how piracy is killing their industry, even if the evidence for these claims are uncertain with some studies claiming small positive, small negative or near-no affect to sales of media, depending on the type of that media.

09 Dec 2020

The Advantages of Piracy (for consumers)

You will always hear of large media companies crying about how piracy is killing their industry, even if the evidence for these claims are uncertain with some studies claiming small positive, small negative or near-no affect to sales of media, depending on the type of that media.

01 Aug 2020

Use Tor for privacy and VPN for downloading Linux Iso's

On the internet there appears to be a lot of confusion about when using a VPN or Tor is appropriate with many people being confused blatantly misleading VPN advertisements. That is not to say that a VPN is not useful as there are use cases that Tor sucks at..

19 Jul 2020

The German Problem with Tor

EAs of the 5th July 2020, there are 1357 Tor bridges available for users in countries who censor the Tor network to use. Having just over 1,000 IP addresses is not a lot for such a big privacy network as Tor is, especially considering that the number of Tor Bridges peaked at 4,227 on the 4th January 2015. That means since then the network has lost more than two-thirds of its bridges.