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Steal my idea for sending private emails 15 Jul 2013 | 06:40 pm
"So, how did you spend your vacation Steve?" I built a basic system that allows common (i.e., non-technical) people to send truly private e-mails to each other. Yes, even the NSA will have a hard time...
Privacy, Intelligence and Old News 10 Jun 2013 | 09:28 am
For as long as I can remember, whenever I was in a conversation about cryptographic systems or network security there has always been a caveat[0]. Security has always been relative because there is al...
Just change your LinkedIn password 8 Jun 2012 | 01:32 am
The other day it came out that millions of LinkedIn password hashes were leaked. Of course everyone with a LinkedIn account wonders if their password has been compromised. This has led to a bunch of p...
Keep external hard drives mounted under OS X without being logged in 4 Feb 2012 | 05:12 pm
I have an old G4 mac mini running OS X 10.5 Leopard that I've set up as a NAS for my home network. The idea was to have our laptops and other macs use Time Machine to backup to the USB drives attached...
Beyond Passwords 10 Jan 2012 | 06:40 am
I've written, spoken, and taught about password management in the past. I continue to believe that password-centric authentication systems are limited in their ability to provide much assurance about ...
Information Technology: Liability, Plumbing, or Force Multiplier? 29 Nov 2011 | 06:21 am
I've been saying for years that you can generate a fairly accurate hypothesis about the organizational attitude toward IT by looking at the responsibility for IT within an organization. If responsibi...
The joys of OpenSuSE 11.4 on a Dell Latitude, and a Docking Station 9 Sep 2011 | 06:05 am
I've been running SuSE for 12 years. So, when I got my standard issue Dell Latitude E64xx I installed OpenSuSE 11.4. It runs great except when it's time to plug or unplug it from the docking station i...
Listing the unique IP addresses from a Web log 2 Sep 2011 | 02:02 pm
I want a list of the unique IP addresses for the machines that have requested pages from a specific directory of a Web application. // pull out the requests for just this directory grep DIRECTORY/re...
Think before you meet 13 Apr 2011 | 06:21 am
Years ago I began working as a system administrator, then programmer. In 2000 I worked remotely 90% of the time. From my home office I could do almost everything I needed to do, but it was in this sit...
New project: drupalauth 23 Feb 2011 | 08:18 am
I've written an authentication module (drupalauth) for simpleSAMLphp that will authenticate users against a local Drupal site. Drupalauth makes it fairly simple for a small organization to bring up a ...
