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Soon to be a major motion picture: Shodan

The story is astonishing/alarming, but the background mythology is downright scary:  The idea for Shodan came to John Matherly in 2003, when he was a teenager attending community college in California. Obsessed with the digital world, he named his project after a malevolent character in a video game called System Shock II. The character, Sentient Hyper-Optimized DataContinue reading “Soon to be a major motion picture: Shodan”

Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB

Sometimes change is easier to hear in language than it is to contextualize in reality. My meager understanding of tuberculosis cannot be expected to grade the seriousness of the news that several new strains of the disease have been found in populations in India and Iran. This sounds alarming, but after all, medical researchers haveContinue reading “Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB”