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- Just have to get the web site back up. 2010/07/27
- If anyone tried to email me this weekend, my DNS provider had an unexpected outage. All should be well now though. 2010/07/27
- Ever run portmaster and portupgrade simultaneously in some kind of Machiavellian race? Seriously, don't do it. Portupgrade won btw. 2010/07/24
- Ironically while it showed more bars right here I had to retry posting that tweet, as per usual in that low signal area. 2010/07/17
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Two Factor Auth & The Yubikey
I have now upgraded the blog to use two factor authentication for logins to the WordPress back end. Meaning, to login you have to present something you know (username/password – ho hum) and either something you have (keyfiles / SSL … Continue reading
Even Russian Spies Need A Helpdesk
If you’ve been following the news recently, by now you’ve heard about the Russian spy ring infiltrated and formally charged by the US. The operatives spying on us make a lot of critical mistakes. Back during the cold war, spies … Continue reading
Mario Marathon 3 Ends
After 4+ days of nonstop gaming, the 3rd annual Mario Marathon is complete after having raised over $81,000 for Child’s Play charity. Amazing! Congrats and thanks to all the fellow donors.
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Mario Marathon 3
As I type this, a small group of dedicated gamers is playing a marathon of Mario games nonstop. Why are they doing this? To benefit the Child’s Play charity. Child’s Play provides toys, games and books to sick kids in … Continue reading
Heavy Data
Wouldn’t it be cool if data had weight? Yes I know a lot of the things that data can do are due to the fact that you can send it across the globe at nearly the speed of light. But … Continue reading
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Hullo
That’s right, this site is back from the dead. I feel rather bad for not having written anything here for awhile. That and WordPress 3.0 has just been released, and I figured that was just the impetus I needed to … Continue reading
The New Insider Threat
It’s not a new threat really. People inside an organization can always be a threat. It’s just that many people, some of them prominent security professionals, have been downplaying the insider threat lately in order to hype other emerging threats. … Continue reading
Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis
via xkcd
Nmap Network Scanning Review
Title: The long winded title for this book is Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning, but I’ll just be calling it NNS. Author: Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon Rating: ***** Bottom Line: The definitive … Continue reading
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Bookmark Backup?
Are you backing up your bookmarks? Oh, you don’t store local bookmarks? You use a social bookmarking website you say? Well I hope you weren’t using Ma.gnolia. They announced on Friday morning that they’ve experienced a catastrophic data loss. Wired … Continue reading