Articles related to computer security, physical security, and similar things.
Although this is an interesting article to me, it would probably bore just about everyone else to tears. The only thing that might mildly interest some people is the coining of a new (to me) word in the last sentence: […] With the pressure off, Siemens is incented to deal with the PR problem and …
I’ve mentioned a couple times before that I used KeePassX, the unofficial Linux port of the highly-thought-of KeePass Password Safe. A few months ago I decided that I’d gotten tired of using it… KeePassX had only basic password management features, it lacked most of the nice features that I heard KeePass had, like automatically and …
I love the idea of these things. (My sister says she wants one that says “see anything you like?”) But I wouldn’t wear one through airport security, I don’t have several hours to waste cooling my heels.
After three months of near-silence, I’m back. Project M is nearly ready for beta (six months of work so far, and it’s still not quite usable… sheesh!), so I think I can spare the time to blog again. I may not write daily for a bit, but I’ll try. The first thing I’d like to …
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I’m busy, so I shouldn’t be writing this, but it’s so funny I can’t avoid it. I got a call about an hour ago. The caller ID said “Unknown Name, Unknown Number.” Background noise of a busy call center, so I’m thinking a survey or a telemarketer. A survey I’ll just politely decline to take. …
The amount of blog-spam that Geek Drivel has gotten recently is ludicrous. Since late June (when the statistics were last reset), my anti-spam software has blocked nearly 42,000 spam messages (of which I saw and had to personally deal with maybe fifteen — that software is good). Roughly 15,000 of them came in between then …
I like this method. Easy to use, and hard to fool if the presumptive liar doesn’t know about it beforehand.
While I was living in Maryland, maybe sixteen years ago, we had a couple really nasty ice storms one year. As in, a long overnight session of freezing rain that coated anything it landed on with a two-inch layer of ice, followed by several inches of snow, the another half-inch ice crust on top. I …
Sit up and pay attention, there will be random pop quizzes later — and if you fail one, your “teacher” will probably steal a good portion of your wealth, with no guarantee that you’ll ever get it back. (I’ve been on the receiving end of credit card fraud three times myself, and I’m ridiculously careful …
I’m sure some of you have been following the Wikileaks news recently… how the founder and spokesperson for the organization, Julian Assange, has been arrested in England, over an accusation in Switzerland. There are reports, which I haven’t been able to confirm, that the US is trying to criminalize Wikileaks retroactively and get him extradited, …
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