De Cock investigates the murders of two former drug users and the woman who ran their boarding house. Music seems to link the killings, and it draws him to a concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Monthly update 256 • August 2011 • 2011-08-01 - 2011-08-31
August 2011 was dominated by hacktivist data dumps, the BART cell shutdown free-speech fight, web tracking exposed, and the fraudulent certificates that broke trust in the web.
July 2011, in which seventeen leaders posted another nine-figure cheque to Greece, the Commission asked for its own taxes, and Brussels found time to police your food label and your roaming bill.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Ares Decision, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith goes to Uganda to track a drug that turns ordinary people into killers, with Iran behind the supply.
How to throttle your network connection on macOS to test how your app or website behaves on a slow connection.
Monthly update 255 • July 2011 • 2011-07-01 - 2011-07-31
De Cock deals with threatening letters and a woman tied to a wheelchair, while a suspect held for beating an old couple to death may not be the real killer.
July 2011 was dominated by the AntiSec hacking spree against defence contractors and police, alongside the phone-hacking scandal that closed the News of the World.
If you see diskmanagementstartup on your Mac, here is what this disk initialisation process does.
The month Brussels asked for its very own taxes, decided that border controls should be graded by the Commission, and reminded a continent that the cucumber was guilty until proven innocent.
Cars 2 (2011), directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis, sends Lightning McQueen to races in Japan and Europe. Owen Wilson voices McQueen with speed and heart. He meets old rivals.
How to find your local and public IP address using Terminal on a Mac.
If you see installd consuming a lot of CPU in Activity Monitor, here is what it is and what you can do about it.
A breach-soaked month dominated by LulzSec, with banks, games firms and spy agencies all losing data to hackers.
Two men from the higher circles of Amsterdam are murdered in the flat of a call girl, and the case falls to De Cock.
Monthly update 254 • June 2011 • 2011-06-01 - 2011-06-30
The month a member state dared to guard its own border, so Brussels decided that border decisions should belong to Brussels; also a third bailout, a botched cucumber, and a fresh demand for your consent to a cookie.
ChatBee was a service, which you could use to create a secure chatbox and share the box with the people you want to speak.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Safari, controlling the developer menu, privacy, tabs, and more.
If you see apsd making network connections from your Mac, here is what this process does.
As a real adult Pentecost holds mature significance for me. The Christian faith rests on the Holy Spirit coming.
A raid on a cash transport van and the murder of its driver give De Cock and his colleagues a great deal of work.
Monthly update 253 • May 2011 • 2011-05-01 - 2011-05-31
As a real adult Ascension Day holds mature significance for me. Jesus now reigns at the right hand of God.