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Areeb Soo Yasir

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2026 38

  1. Did I Abandon Dubai?
  2. Canadian Cloud at Risk Over EU Associate Membership
  3. Europe Is Terrified – The Russians Are Coming And Your Data Is At Risk
  4. Why Your Office Needs More IP Addresses For Productivity
  5. Why I Call EU Countries Vassal States of the US
  6. Implications For Your AI in Business – Did Chinese AI Companies Copy ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini?
  7. The US Recruits Private Companies For Cyberattacks
  8. Your Risk If The US Bombs Chinese Datacenters
  9. How The US Shuts Down Your Business
  10. The Best Client Question and Why AI Is Too Dangerous For Hosting Sites and Important Data
  11. How We Help Businesses and Web Host Admins Migrate, Secure and Upgrade their Websites and Applications from cPanel, Plesk, WIX, Godaddy, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, OVH, Hostinger
  12. CDN Admins are Killing Your Business
  13. Digital Marketing and SEO Services from an IT Admin Perspective
  14. Zbtlink “backdoor” Cybersecurity Issue a Reminder to Use Secure Routers
  15. US News Censored by Canadian Internet but free in Hong Kong
  16. Why the US Sanctioning a UAE Bank Should Drive your IT Decisions
  17. Don’t Travel with your Cryptocurrency Wallet
  18. How to Securely Host Your Dedicated/VM/Cloud Services including Cryptocurrency
  19. Your Domain Can Be Seized for “Misinformation”
  20. What the US’s Response to “Chinese Hackers” Shows the World
  21. Your Kid’s Expensive Private School Tech Education Is Sh*t.
  22. Turkey’s Enhanced Value as an EU Server Hosting Replacement
  23. Canada is an alternative to host your data outside the US and EU for Cloud, VMs and Dedicated Servers
  24. What Hungary’s Data Seizure Scandal Means For Your Business
  25. Why Businesses Should Care Where They Host – Banned in the EU
  26. What the Evergrande Founder’s Life Sentence Tells Us About Shenzhen and China
  27. I ping’d all of Google bots IPs and here is what I found
  28. Security Issues with Cloud Network Devices like Cisco Meraki
  29. My PDF Editor Solution AKA PDF Pigeon
  30. We Should All Prepare To Be Russian
  31. Protonmail’s History of Swiss and US Government Compliance
  32. Don’t let your domain get ICE’d
  33. False advertising or strangely true somehow?
  34. The US Killed Europe’s Internet – The Surprising Solution
  35. The US Forces Europe To Hack Cloud Servers
  36. Is AI watching you?
  37. This Aged Well – Trump’s Threats to Allies from 2025 Video
  38. Returning Back To China – Episode 01 – The Beginning/Just like Dubai? Is China a failed country?

2021 2

  1. Coinmarketcap.com Hacked/Bug
  2. Should You Care What Billionaires Say About Bitcoin?

2020 33

  1. Top 3 Key Factors When Planning an Online Course
  2. Cryptocurrency Course Learning Outcomes – Module 1
  3. 5 Challenges and Opportunities of e-Teaching
  4. Instructor Role in Online Community
  5. Types of interaction in an online course
  6. Who Are My eLearners?
  7. eLearning Tools and Resources
  8. Key Summary of eLearning Principles and Processes
  9. 10 Best Practices for e-Learning
  10. ePortfolios Benefits Your Profile and Career
  11. Cybersecurity in Canada
  12. PIDP3100 – Week 3 – Trends in the IT Industry
  13. PIDP 3100 – Week 4 – Post #2: Trends in Adult Education
  14. PIDP 3100 – Week 7 Post #3: Trends in Adult Education
  15. PIDP3260 – Week 2 – Intro
  16. PIDP3260 – Week 3 – Core Assumptions of Skillful Teaching
  17. PIDP3260 – Week 4 – Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Teaching about Racism
  18. PIDP3260 – Week 5 – Responding to Students’ Resistance to Learning
  19. PIDP 3260 – Week 7 – Comment on Video
  20. PIDP 3260 – Week 6 – 5 Year Vision as an Instructor
  21. PIDP 3260 – Week 8 – Post PIDP Development Plans
  22. The Funniest Man Alive. The Muslim. The Dave Chappelle
  23. The Father Of Optics, First Scientist
  24. The Grandfather of Computer Science
  25. We’re Habitual Abusers of Earth
  26. Who’s Watching You Today?
  27. Trump Tells 3M To Stop Sending Masks To Canada
  28. Are You Banking On The Banks?
  29. Amazon Fires A Quarantine Breaker
  30. Can Netflix Survive Covid_19
  31. Nomi: The AI Of Your Dreams & Nightmares
  32. Important Facts About Novel Coronavirus
  33. 2020- Time For A Change!

2019 23

  1. Securing Your Crypto Wallet
  2. Should We Sue Companies That Get Data Breached?
  3. Firefox’s Gonna Tattle On Trackers
  4. What Is A “Blind” XSS
  5. Binance 7000 BTC Hack – Was It Really?
  6. Facial Recognition Doesn’t Recognize Your Rights
  7. Electrum Wallet Botnet Hack Analysis
  8. Judge Questions Big Banks Who Overstate Cryptocurrency Risks
  9. 5G The Battle For Which Technology Will Irradiate Us More
  10. Swissquote Offers Bitcoin custody Service
  11. Would You Buy A $2k SmartPhone That Folds?
  12. Top 10 Newest Tech Memes
  13. Why You Shouldn’t Let Amazon In
  14. Chinese New Year Letter
  15. QuadrigaCX goes under, leaving users frustrated and some without their coins/cryptocurrency
  16. National Security Or Competition Threat?
  17. The Cyber Security Risk Of A Shut Down
  18. The Tech Nerd vs The BA Grad
  19. Another Data Breach, Another Day
  20. AI Taking Over CES 2019
  21. Are Amazon and Alibaba Doomed To Fail? – Jeff Bezos Says “Yes”
  22. Do IT Industry Certifications Mean Anything?
  23. 2019: The Resolutions Of A New Year

2018 135

  1. Amazon & Alibaba are getting you comfortable with Insecure Clouds
  2. Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou’s Arrest Highlights Data, Security and Privacy Concerns in Canada
  3. How To Be Diplomatic
  4. Private Cloud Spending is Increasing not Decreasing
  5. Is Ethereum at risk of a 51% attack?
  6. Google allows third parties and apps to spy on your gmail account
  7. The Origin of Hodl
  8. The Hype and Reality Around SDDC (Software Defined Data Centers)
  9. Amazon Paying Employees To Report Positive Working Experience
  10. Do Not Track Is Still Tracking
  11. Attack The Day
  12. Online Safety For Your Kids
  13. Vancouver a Tech Hub for Large Business only?
  14. Were Amazon, Elemental, Apple and Thousands of Supermicro Servers Compromised by the Chinese Government?
  15. Can Private Permissioned Blockchains Be Successful?
  16. Oracle’s NoSQL Service a Signal For The Future
  17. My experience as an instructor at BCIT’s High Tech Professional, NASP Program
  18. Smart Contracts On A Public Blockchain
  19. Ripple’s Escrow and Investor Concerns Unanswered
  20. Public Blockchain Breaks IT Security Standards
  21. TRX?USD Trading Pair & Bittrex
  22. 182,000 IT Positions Available By 2019 – True or False?
  23. My experience with Proxmox 5.2 vs VMWare ESXi/vSphere 6.7
  24. Quantum Computing Cloud Provider Rigetti Takes on Big Cloud Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft
  25. Bittrex added XRP and ETC to their USD Markets
  26. PayPal demands PCI DSS Compliance with TLS 1.2 but misses the cut!
  27. Thanks Linus
  28. The S in HTTPS
  29. Negative Thoughts Slow You Down
  30. OpenSource Opens Doors For Your IT Career Path
  31. Nvidia’s Geforce RTX Revolution Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU!
  32. Verizon Throttling Creates Life and Death Situations
  33. Is Decentralized Centralized?
  34. Monero lost more than 50% of its network hash rate
  35. Your TV A Bitcoin Miner?
  36. VMWare 6.7 A Blast From The Past
  37. Google Chrome now marking non-SSL sites as insecure
  38. Trons Disappointed Fans
  39. Bitcoin Anonymity at what cost?
  40. RAID in 2018
  41. Python Easy To Code
  42. Crypto Internet Trolls MasterCard
  43. Sherman’s Head
  44. “The Future Of Money”
  45. I got TRON’d: The TRX Fiasco
  46. Amazon’s Racist Shop
  47. Shatner’s Not Giving ETH
  48. The Truth About Laundering Bitcoin
  49. Dogecon 2018: Vancouver
  50. Who Created & Spying On Your Bitcoin?
  51. The Dark Web Bust
  52. John McAfee’s Not Dead
  53. Tech Employee’s Aren’t Down With ICE
  54. 16 Things To Improve Your Life
  55. BITCOIN’S VALUE WAS FRAUD?
  56. Psychopath CEO’s
  57. Bitcoin Energy Usage Less Than Fiat
  58. Vitalik Buterin Courted to work for Google
  59. Amazon’s Alexa AI Assistant Spies On You!
  60. Dogecoin Is Underrated
  61. Observations on AI and Google’s Implementation
  62. Ethereum: The Story of Casper the Unfriendly Ghost!
  63. Warren Buffett Wrong About Bitcoin
  64. Kin plans to fork Stellar Lumens instead of using ERC20 Ethereum Coins
  65. India’s Bitcoin Ban Challenged
  66. Facebook Expands To Spy On The Workforce
  67. Bitcoin Fails To Defend 10K Mark
  68. Google’s Co-Founder Sergey Brin Says Ethereum Mining Driving Computer Boom and Renaissance
  69. Dubai Establishes Business Blockchain Registry
  70. Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash
  71. Nasdaq Plans To Become Cryptocurrency Exchange
  72. BitPay Accepts Bitcoin Cash
  73. Federal Reserve Says Bitcoin Cannot Replace the US Dollar
  74. Study Shows Bitcoin Is More Centralized Than Ethereum
  75. Wikileaks Shutdown by Coinbase
  76. Why Hardforks In Cryptocurrency Are Bad
  77. Bitcoin Private and Cloak Cryptocurrencies
  78. Verge Coin Asks For More Money – Shady Things Coins Do
  79. Ripple Wants Government Regulation of Cryptocurrency
  80. Cloud VPS Server Comparison by Techrich
  81. Facebook Tracks Non-Users Too!
  82. Just Keep Hodling Your Cryptocurrency Coins!
  83. George Soros Does a 180 on Cryptocurrency Investment – Pledges To Buy
  84. Lightning Network – LN Network DDOS’d and Attacked By Organized Group
  85. Verge XVG Mining Exploit Results in $1.1M Heist
  86. Nano AKA Raiblocks XRB and Bitgrail Scam $150M Lost!
  87. Alibaba’s Sesame China’s All-in-One Credit Rating System
  88. Trezor Hardware Wallet to Support Bitcoin Cash
  89. Swiss Researchers Forecast Sideways Trading and Downward Pressure on Bitcoin for 2018
  90. Did Facebook, Zuckerberg and Big Data Elect Trump?
  91. ICOs Still Going Strong in 2018
  92. G20 Summit Proposes To Adopt, Regulate and NOT Ban Cryptocurrency
  93. Bitcoin Down 53%? Time to panic or time to be happy?
  94. Hardforks Are Scams Says Charlie Lee LTC Creator
  95. Telegram Raises 1.2Billion in unnecessary ICO
  96. Ethereum Developers Consider Bricking Bitmain’s Antminer ETHash Based ASIC
  97. The Bitcoin “Bubble” May Pop But Rise Again
  98. What the FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)
  99. Cryptocurrency Groups Sue Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yandex For Advertising Ban
  100. 300Billion in Market Cap Lost in Cryptocurrency in 2018
  101. Bitmain Reportedly Creates an Ethereum ETHash and Cryptonight Monero ASIC Miner
  102. Coinbase To Support Ethereum ERC20 Tokens
  103. Binance Moves HQ to a Welcoming Country of Malta
  104. IRS / US Taxman Says Cryptocurrency Income IS Taxable
  105. Why Deleting Facebook Is Futile Unless…..
  106. USA Bans Nicolas Maduro’s Petro Coin
  107. We Need A Better Coin Now!
  108. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg finally apologies for the 3rd party data breach
  109. NEM Gives Up Chase for $500M USD in Stolen Coins
  110. Pablo Escobar’s Brother Trafficks an ICO and new Bitcoin Fork!
  111. Edward Snowden Says Bitcoin’s Downfall Is Public Ledger
  112. Ledger Nano S Bitcoin Altcoin Hardware Wallet Hacked By Teenager
  113. The NSA is spying on cryptocurrency including Bitcoin – Edward Snowden
  114. US Cryptocurrency and ICO Regulations Push Business Overseas
  115. Ripple Performance Beats Bitcoin and Ethereum!
  116. SEC Helps and Hinders ICO’s with Reg-A+
  117. First Bitcoin Mining Arrest
  118. Youtube’s Censorship Plan
  119. Washington Org Warns Of Petro Coin Threat
  120. IMF Wants To Regulate Bitcoin with Blockchain!
  121. Binance Proposes a new Decentralized Exchange
  122. Videoblocks.com Scam Review Complaint
  123. Iran Enters The Cryptocurrency Race
  124. Ripple’s First Central Bank Contract with Saudi Arabia!
  125. How Governments Should Handle Crypto and ICOs
  126. The Future Of Blockchain Currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin belong to governments, banks and large corporate players.
  127. Neo, the Ethereum Competitor from China. How does it stack up?
  128. FINOM ICO Review and Regrets
  129. Mercatox Cryptocurrency Exchange Review
  130. Ethereum High Transaction Fees/Gas, Tokens and Exchanges = Bad Investment
  131. Petro Coin Is Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro’s Sanction Hot Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold, Oil and Diamonds
  132. Cryptocurrency vs the Current Financial System Which is more evil?
  133. Why I Didn’t Get In On QASH Coin from Quoine/Liquid ICO
  134. Meltdown and Spectre Analysis and Current Status
  135. My Take On Meltdown and Spectre Computer Security Flaws

2017 31

  1. What does “HODLING” mean in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin Trading Strategy?
  2. Bitcoin Gold Scam Heist – Who Should Be Held Responsible?
  3. 2018 Year of the Dogecoin Prediction as it crosses the 1 cent mark!
  4. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Altcoin Crash – What You Need To Know
  5. Net Neutrality – USA’s Version of the GFW – Death of Freedom and Information
  6. NCIX Declares Bankruptcy – My 15 Year Story of a 20 Year Journey For Netlink Computer
  7. Non-Existent Service in the CryptoCurrency Business Will Have Long-Term Impact
  8. The Best Purchase I Ever Felt Good About
  9. Two Of The Craziest Mining Rigs I’ve Found For Sale!
  10. Ethereum’s Issues Stem From the Basics
  11. Bitcoin – I Don’t “Get It”
  12. How to disable Google Fonts on your website
  13. Issues with Buying from China
  14. IoT (Internet of Things) Security Issues Increase
  15. Trading Cryptocurrency Emotionally Is Good For Me and Bad For You!
  16. Losing Chinese Business Because of 2 Simple Mistakes
  17. Is China Still A Hot Economy?
  18. Countries where cryptocurrency, coins, tokens and ICOs are banned
  19. Google Pixel 2 for Business Use?
  20. My New Phone – OnePlus 5 8GB RAM/128GB Storage
  21. Why Don’t I/We Use RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux Instead of Centos?
  22. 2017 and Beyond The Future of Cryptocurrency and Government Financial Regulations
  23. Decentralized Search Engines to Rival Google Based on Blockchain from Bitclave
  24. The Future Is Powered By Kinetics and Thermal Power Generation
  25. iPhone-X 10 Thoughts and Personal Business Review
  26. Green Low-Power Alternative Computing Intel NUC Boxes
  27. Bitcoin’s Hard Fork of BCH Bitcoin Cash a milestone for cryptocurrency
  28. My Take On WannaCry
  29. Why I Founded Techrich Corporation of Hong Kong, China
  30. Slow Internet in China especially Shanghai and Beijing!
  31. 100% Dedicated Server Uptime Random Example

2016 18

  1. An Opportunity To Share Values
  2. Teaching Code To Kids
  3. Being an Expert on China’s Internet And Getting Ahead
  4. Dedicated Server Uptime Samples
  5. My first 8TB Seagate Drive
  6. How To Make Your Office IT/Computer Hardware More Green
  7. Personal Best Hosting Advice for Shared, VPS and Dedicated Servers
  8. Windows VPS Server 2008/2012 VPS (Virtual Private Server) are too RAM intensive
  9. OpenBSD Install Howto Guided Experience
  10. Will the PC and Server Based computing become obsolete?
  11. Rebooting a Linux Dedicated server with no hard drives from the shell
  12. Green Computing with a Server Based Desktop Workstation
  13. WIPO UDRP Domain Dispute Domain Seizure Experience
  14. Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Business Decision to Fight the FBI/Court Order
  15. KVM getting virtio to work in custom Linux Kernel
  16. Areeb Yasir What Does It Mean?
  17. Chung Chuck of Ladner BC
  18. About Areeb Soo Yasir and compevo communications