Posts tagged mongo

When Surveillance Is Accessible by All

surveillance data breach mongo December 31, 2015 at 11:40 AM Emin Gün Sirer
The data breach involving sensitive data on 191 million voters portends a future where everyone has access to everything there is to know about everyone.

All Your Voter Data Are Belong To H4x0rz

nosql mongo hyperdex security data breach December 28, 2015 at 07:00 PM Emin Gün Sirer
The biggest data breach of the year. Of course, it involves Mongo.

More Mongo than Mongo

mongo hyperdex nosql January 12, 2015 at 01:45 PM Kai Mast, Robert Escriva, and Emin Gün Sirer
HyperDex now does Mongo better and faster than MongoDB.

NoSQL Meets Bitcoin and Brings Down Two Exchanges: The Story of Flexcoin and Poloniex

nosql bitcoin mongo broken April 06, 2014 at 12:15 PM Emin Gün Sirer
The real story of how weak NoSQL systems allowed users to make money out of the thin air and brought down two Bitcoin exchanges, one permanently.

When PR says No but Engineering says Yes

mongo broken February 07, 2013 at 02:37 PM Emin Gün Sirer
MongoDB is really broken when it comes to fault-tolerance.

When Data is Worthless

mongo February 03, 2013 at 10:32 AM Emin Gün Sirer
MongoDB may be a bad choice even when you can afford to lose some data.

Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance

mongo nosql fault-tolerance bolt-on engineering broken January 29, 2013 at 02:15 PM Emin Gün Sirer
MongoDB claims that it provides fault-tolerance. In this note, I explain why and how it falls short.