I just read this report on Somebody Think of the Children having just seen it commented on by Cameron Reilly on Twitter and shared by Alex in Google Reader. I’m speechless. Game over man, game over.
Tuesday 16th March 2010
From the I Can’t Believe They’re Serious department, Bruce Schneier has blogged about a hilarious memory key product (link fixed) that doesn’t get its security from sound, well implemented cryptography, but from.. get this… a two wheel physical combination lock that hides the contact pins!
Thursday 11th March 2010
Back in 2006 I posted some of my favourite Bruce Schneier facts. Here we are in 2010 and I still read ones that make me laugh out loud!
Monday 15th February 2010
Having just lambasted (sounds like an old school Shaggy song) cloud computing for data breaches and privacy concerns, I think it helps to remind myself/ourselves that “traditional” in-house server systems aren’t exactly bullet proof either. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Google Buzz was launched recently, and unless you’ve been living under a rather large rock (presumably with a cavity big enough for your entire body) you would have seen the outpouring of criticism with regards to privacy — I’m saving the fact I’m not using the service because I don’t see the need for it for another post! Speaking of which, when was the last time I logged into Google Wave?
Sunday 31st January 2010
Today’s epiphany. Kind of embarrassing that I’ve been using OpenSSH for this long without doing this.
SSH with pre-shared keys is simply a pleasure to use. The fact the security is much better is just an added bonus ;)
Is that how you spell Epiphany? Let me go check the Gnome project page :).
Sunday 29th November 2009
As I’ve discussed before I’m a very heavy TrueCrypt user because I have me some secrets (COUGH!), it makes available my favourite cipher, its simple to use and its cross platform. The graphic interface is a bit kludgey though, so as I do with OS X’s hdiutil I’ve started getting used to using it on the command line.
Friday 20th November 2009
@jowyang commenting on #smba:
Many attendees say they don’t trust Facebook. Concerned about how their data is used, permissions, and connecting personal with work
Monday 02nd November 2009
As I said with the Ghostery Firefox extension back in May (Ghostery Mozilla Firefox extension review), it bowls me over when I go to some sites to see just how much sneaky crap is going on behind the scenes, and how most people simply have no idea. With NoScript, I’m starting to see the same thing, and it’s rapidly getting much worse.
Wednesday 21st October 2009
With Mozilla’s recent blocking of Microsoft’s vulnerable .NET plugin for Firefox on Windows I’ve mostly read positive comments from people on blogs, news sites, Twitter and so forth, but there are a few who it seems the move has rubbed the wrong way.
