NetBIOS over TCP/IP, also known as NBT, is a bad idea whose time never should have come. We all know we shouldn’t use it, or WINS for that matter; we should just use DNS everywhere. And we also know that we shouldn’t eat a lot of bacon. But if someone has a plate of bacon […]
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Global Barometric Variation – Annual Maps and Monthly Raw Data
When I published my first post on Avoiding Migraines Resulting From Changes In Barometric Pressure in 2013, I had no idea how many fellow migraineurs would read, engage, and comment. “Hi guys, OK so this really does work. I suffered when I lived in Virginia. Moved to Georgia, no headaches, moved back to Virginia, headaches, moved to […]
What You Should Know About Government Back Doors in Medical Videoconferencing
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook published a letter to Apple customers, in response to an order given by the United States Government directing Apple to provide technical assistance to federal agents attempting to unlock the contents of an iPhone 5C that had been used by Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, […]
In a previous article, Avoiding Migraines Resulting from Changes in Barometric Pressure, we used pressure-induced migraines as an example of why a clinician might choose to relocate from their client base, and therefore need a videoconferencing service to continue meeting with patients. As part of the example, we shared lists of US cities with the least […]
Fiddler is a fantastic tool that allows developers and IT professionals to see what’s happening under the hood when a web page is requested by a user. Somewhat simplified, when a user visits a web page, whether she knows it or not, she is using the HTTP protocol to request a web resource, and then […]
If you’re like me, someone who has been building web applications for 15 years or so, then like me, you probably freaked out the first time you pasted a screenshot into your gmail. You thought, “what just happened?” You thought, “wait, this shouldn’t be possible!” And your immediate next thought was, “omg, how do I […]
Avoiding Migraines Resulting from Changes in Barometric Pressure
So…what do Migraine Headaches induced by Barometric Pressure have to do with SecureVideo.com? A lot, if you’re a clinician who suffers from these nasty pressure-induced Migraines, and you’re considering relocating away from your client base. I was recently talking to one of our new clinicians, and we discovered that we both happen to suffer from […]
Implementing JSON Web Tokens in .NET with a Base 64 URL Encoded key
I wasn’t able to find any good technical examples of how to implement JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for .NET when the key is Base 64 URL encoded according to the JWT spec (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-08#appendix-A.1, page 35). John Sheehan’s JWT library on GitHub is a nice starting point, and works well when the key is ASCII encoded […]
SecureVideo.com Heise Security, a top German internet security firm, has done some research that will be somewhat frightening to Skype users, especially those who believe their Skype sessions retain any promise of privacy. A recent H-online article detailed research showing that Microsoft servers are programmed to visit HTTPS (SSL) URLs typed into the Skype instant […]
By Jonathan (JT) Taylor, Chief Technology Officer SecureVideo.com From a human perspective, a good videoconference is similar to a good movie. In a good movie, there is a “suspension of disbelief”, whereby the viewer–initially well aware of being seated in a movie theater and thus disbelieving of the reality of images appearing on the screen–eventually […]