BF-F9 V2+ (left) and BF-F8HP (right)

Update: I have since taken the BF-F8 HP completely apart and the backing appears to be painted aluminum, not plastic, and have updated this article accordingly.

I’ve gotten into amateur radio recently and therefore have been looking into a lot of different handheld …

For the second time in the last few months, GoDaddy has locked my account and forced a password change “for security purposes”. While I would expect this kind of behavior if someone managed to login to my account in another country or in an area that I’m not normally …

I released a small project this morning, Disposamail, which I created between last night and this morning. Disposamail is a web application that allows you to grab a temporary email address and use that address while you’re still on the Disposamail website. Once you leave the website, the address …

A critical vulnerability has been found in Verizon’s email API which basically allows any user to access any other user’s email, given they know how to properly send the requests to Verizon’s server. Randy Westergren noticed this vulnerability when he was proxying requests from his device (presumably …

CyanogenMod has been working on version 11, KitKat, for almost a year now, and decided that it was probably stable enough to use day-to-day. Therefore, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Note II) got upgraded to CyanogenMod 11 M9 a few days ago.

So far it’s been pretty stable. The only …