Category: security
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on the usability of passphrases
Ok, finally had a moment to fully read the articlepassword usability and digest. My first thot is, there are some places this logic should not apply, like in situations where offline brute forcing is possible (like theft of password hashes), and not applicable to wifi routers, and cases where sites take only small (8-char) passwords.…
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One Ziptie, a Bottle Cap and No Duct Tape (top that!)
A hanging shelf bracket in my (grumble) wonderful (cough) fridge busted. It was of course…plastic. Not much good to have your cheese drawer sitting on your eggs, gotta fix it. I hammered out a bracket to grip the vestigial fastener so that it could take tension and applied an 8″ zip tie. Good enough for…
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OpenSSH Public Key Authentication
This looks like a good guide on using ssh-keygen, the authorized_keys file, and using ssh-agent. OpenSSH Public Key Authentication.
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Do your browser plugin check today! Yes–YOU!
Please keep this browser plugin checker in your bookmark bar at the top of your browser: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ …and click on it right now. There’s a current Adobe Shockwave Flash exploit that affects all browsers around. Please click that bookmark every day, it’s quick, take a few seconds, and you don’t want to spend your time…
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