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Pidgin and MSN (certificate error for omega.contacts.msn.com)
Microsoft did something today. My wife started getting dozens of dialogs with this error – “The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is...
View ArticleYear End Link Clearance – Password Edition
I’m not good at letting go. If I were doing this right, I’d just list the links and be done with it. But no, I have to blather about each one, because I found each of these interesting and worth...
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VMware Cloud Jumper
This is an interesting marketing technique. “Join the growing elite of IT leaders known as ‘Cloud Jumpers’ who have taken the leap and begun their journey to Cloud Computing. ” It’s a short but...
View ArticleAnother Gawker bug: handling non-ASCII characters in passwords
Last week I dumped a bunch of information about the sorry state of passwords and the internet, mostly from Light Blue Touchpaper. As usual, I soon ran across more information that should be included....
View ArticleOn Nuclear Reactors and Banks
Putting Nuclear Reactors and Banks into the same sentence seems odd to most people, but Tim Hartford points out in What we can learn from a nuclear reactor that there are some important similarities....
View ArticleSecurity Questions Strike Again
I can’t seem to wrap up this security jag. Stuff keeps happening. This article highlights again why secret questions are a bad idea. In a cautionary tale for users of social-networking sites, a...
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How to Make Anything Signify Anything
This photo says “Knowledge Is Powe[r]” using Sir Francis Bacon’s Bilateral Cipher. See how here. I found this on a fascinating treatise about cryptography, steganography and WWII cryptographers...
View ArticleYouTube Illustrated
I have nothing to add to this video. You’ll love it or just scratch your head. The video is … amazing. I fear to even glance at the comments. I’m guessing NextGenHacker is wishing the internet had...
View ArticleThe Sony hack: passwords vs. financial details
The details are coming out about yet another data breach, this time at Sony’s PlayStation Network. Light Blue Touchpaper has the details. (excerpts below, with my emphasis) Sometime last week, Sony...
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Password Strength – you’re doing it wrong
A confluence has occurred – time to write a post! Wow. That’s very observant, and kind of funny (to me anyway). So, my corporate password was expiring shortly after I read this, so I decided to change...
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