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WhatsApp – a Complete Security-Desaster

September 26, 2012 / posted in Android, Apps, cross-platform, iOS, messaging, security, WhatsApp / 1 Comment

WhatsApp – a cross-plattform messaging-service available world-wide, with a user-base counting billions of users. They intended to replace the famous SMS and MMS – short messages and multi-media messages, sent by mobile phones, claiming that by making use of the internet it would reduce the costs of the users. Well, so far, so good, all [...]

Distributed Compilation, Part II

February 3, 2011 / posted in BSD, ccache, compilation, computer, Configuration, cross-compilation, cross-platform, distributed compilation, experiments, heterogeneous, NetBSD, Network, pkgsrc, pump, server, shellscript, SPARC, SPARC64, Sun, UltraSPARC / 2 Comments

As I wrote in my previous Post, , the so far gained speed up of compilation times was significant, but it still took long. The most obvious solution was to add more hosts to the list, but which hosts should that be? The Ultra-5 of course not, and all other Sun computers were slower and [...]