EPA opposed rules that would have exposed VW’s cheating
[…] Two months ago, the EPA opposed some proposed measures that would help potentially expose subversive code like the so-called “defeat device” software VW allegedly used by allowing consumers and researchers to legally reverse-engineer the code used in vehicles. EPA opposed this, ironically, because the agency felt that allowing people to examine the software code in vehicles would potentially allow car owners to alter the software in ways that would produce more emissions in violation of the Clean Air Act. The issue involves the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), which prohibits anyone from working around “technological protection measures” that limit access to copyrighted works. The Library of Congress, which oversees copyrights, can issue exemptions to those prohibitions that would make it legal, for example, for researchers to examine the code to uncover security vulnerabilities.
(tags: dmca volkswagen vw law code open-source air-quality diesel cheating regulation us-politics)
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities
Inside KARMA POLICE, GCHQ’s mass-surveillance operation aimed to record the browsing habits of “every visible user on the internet”, including UK-to-UK internal traffic. more details on the other GCHQ mass surveillance projects at https://theintercept.com/gchq-appendix/
(tags: surveillance gchq security privacy law uk ireland karma-police snooping)
Streaming will soon pass traditional TV – Tech Insider
the percentage of people who say they stream video from services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu each day has increased dramatically over the last five years, from about 30% in 2010 to more than 50% this year. During the same period, the percentage of people who say they watch traditional TV […] has dropped by about 10%. When the beige line surpasses the purple line [looks like 2016], it will mean that more people are streaming each day than are watching traditional TV.
Is there a CAP theorem for Durability?
Marc Brooker with another thought-provoking blogpost
(tags: databases storage marc-brooker cap-theorem cap durability pacelc nosql)
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(via Aman)
(tags: via:akohli graphics ascii-art ascii visualization text boxes diagrams)
Scale it to Billions — What They Don’t Tell you in the Cassandra README
large-scale C* tips
(tags: cassandra configuration tuning scale ops)
Introduction to HDFS Erasure Coding in Apache Hadoop
How Hadoop did EC. Erasure Coding support (“HDFS-EC”) is set to be released in Hadoop 3.0 apparently
(tags: erasure-coding reed-solomon algorithms hadoop hdfs cloudera raid storage)
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some details on Netflix’s Chaos Monkey, Chaos Kong and other aspects of their availability/failover testing
(tags: architecture aws netflix ops chaos-monkey chaos-kong testing availability failover ha)
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Træf?k is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker , Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rest API, file…) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
Hot-reloading is notably much easier than with nginx/haproxy. -
a proxy that mucks with your system and application context, operating at Layers 4 and 7, allowing you to simulate common failure scenarios from the perspective of an application under test; such as an API or a web application. If you are building a distributed system, Muxy can help you test your resilience and fault tolerance patterns.
(tags: proxy distributed testing web http fault-tolerance failure injection tcp delay resilience error-handling)
Petabyte-Scale Data Pipelines with Docker, Luigi and Elastic Spot Instances — AdRoll
nice approach
(tags: data-pipelines docker luigi containers workflow)