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I’m usually expecting to see conversations or fragments of conversations on Twitter, but it’s also nice to see that companies have conversations A few minutes ago: And then after a couple of minutes: Nice

If you care about either the past or the future of our digital assets, you should really watch this “ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack” Defcon presentation by Jason Scott. I am sadly too young to fully appreciate some of the older or more exotic things they archive (like old tapes, floppy disks, [...]

I love Linux. I don’t use it anymore as a desktop OS but all the servers I use at work and for personal projects are Linux and I use it daily. I did have it as a desktop OS for quite some time a few years ago and of course it worked and I knew [...]

Be sure to read the actual post after the comic   Man….I so wish that were true… My parents’ internet connection didn’t work and I was called in for an “Intervention”. Basically they were taken through the whole stop the computer, start the computer, check Control Panel, etc. process. So they called me over. Waited [...]

XX (@Y) is now following you on Twitter! (I will disregard the fact that it’s a stupid attempt of “let’s follow a ton of people, some will follow back, we have people watching/reading what we say” ) So of course you may click to see the twitter profile and see if it’s worth following back. [...]

Continue Testing! Or…

Wikipedia defines an email Subject as: Subject: A brief summary of the topic of the message. Certain abbreviations are commonly used in the subject, including “RE:” and “FW:”. Pretty straightforward, right? Still this seems to be hard to grasp even for some of the more-educated people I talk with using email. What usually happens: I [...]

If you’ve read anything related to cryptography, chances are you’ve heard some of the stories with Alice and Bob They’re probably some of the most known characters in general in the computer field and I always love hearing Alice and Bob stories. And now on RSA Conference‘s youtube channel I also found videos of them, [...]

[short one..hanging around in drafts for some time so I just thought I'd kick it out..] Or well…caching the limits. I just noticed recently that when I’m investigating the possibility to cache something, I always force myself to look at the endpoints of the whole process even forcibly ignoring the middle of the process. Don’t [...]

So… consider numeric entry keypads like for various security locks. Some problems: fingerprints on the keys wearing on the keys positions being always the same, you can recognize the code even from a distance Some of these also apply to touch displays and they all make typing in your code less secure. Enter the Optimus [...]