Disk Encryption Useless?

Wondering for awhile about encrypting my HD with FileVault and came across this neat video:

Almost makes me feel like drive encryption is useless at this point, some googling shows this is about 2 years old wonder if encryption software developers have fixed the issue?

iBGPplay

Doing some staying with BGP and the vulnerability behind what runs what we  call today the internet. Came across a very neat tool that shows route changes from history. RIPE has the biggest library of changes logged with the tool:

http://labs.ripe.net/Members/csquarce/content-historical-bgplay

currently have not use for it, but this is the next level looking glass servers see the tool here:

 

http://www.ibgplay.org/

which gets me to mys studies, cyclops, a thing of beauty keeps track of route hijacks in the 

internet

http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/