One Of Many Possible Apocalypses
How the Internet is supposed to work. How to break it.
Goddamn world is melting and it could get worse. Some dude in Seattle broke the Internet with a pretty convincing hack. It basically gave any hacker a one in 65,536 chance of taking over basically any website. Not the site per se, but DNS connects any website (indi.ca) to an IP address (207.7.108.53). Hack that and you can redirect hsbc.lk to whatever you want. And hacked it has been. They installed a patch which makes the odds one in 4 billion, but security-wise that’s actually frosted shite. I feel like a Zombie Botnet Army could easily break everything. Then I was reading that if three more major companies go down some CDO deal will be triggered and investors will lose a flood of real cash.
The future is kinda sucking so far. No flying cars, just a bunch of acronyms that ruin your life in slow motion. The DNS is down? CDOs are in default? WTF?
Not to quote Ice Cube, but the Sri Lankan police are hardly beloved. A
I just gave a talk at the University Of Sri Jayawardenapura along with Reeza Zarook of Anything.lk and Rohan Jayaweera of Google. These are my notes: Devin Jayasundara asked me for a subject for this talk and I told him Internet property. But I talked to my fiancé Shru and she had a better idea. Startups aren’t about creating property at all, not really. They’re about creating territory, about creating land.
I haven’t been blogging much, I know. It’s partly because we’ve been doing a lot of work on YAMU, especially shipping 1.0.1 of the Android app today. It’s on the
I met an old-timer who said they used to drop acid and sleep atop Sigiriya, but the place has taken on a more commercial and quasi-spiritual role now. It was built by a king as a sort of retreat and used as a monastery. Now it’s a prime tourist and cultural destination. Hence it’s a bit odd to see a Japanese beer commercial shot up there. There’s a bunch of people eating, um, deep fried cream filled coconuts and then drinking some bracing beer. I hear the whole thing cost Rs. 25,000 (I’m presuming they used stock images).

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