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Random musings by ptw

 

2011-06-27

How I spent my weekend

swim 1.2, bike 80, run 2, swim 1.2, run 6.2. With some friends who are equally crazy:

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2010-12-16

EFF FTW!

the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers
via eff.org

Google may be able to search your email without your permission, but at least the government needs a warrant!

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2010-12-13

Why you should not use the same password everywhere...

Like every major password breach from christiansingles to rockyou.com, there are an alarming number of people that use completely insecure passwords. Perhaps the thought process is that the worst an attacker could do if he or she got your password (assuming the same password is not used everywhere else) is leave comments as you on a Gawker Media web site. But the same pattern emerged in the hotmail password dump that showed up on Pastebin last year, and in that case it was a password for a person’s e-mail access.

1,958 Gawker users’ password was ‘password’.

681 users used ‘qwerty’ or qwerty and a minor variation (qwerty followed by two digits or letters).

We haven’t finished analyzing the file to determine how many users had 1-2-3-4-5, the combination on my luggage.

Forbes blog

11:56 | Link

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2010-12-07

Pacific Sun

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2010-12-04

Does anyone actually believe the DDOS attacks on WikiLeaks are coming from 'friendly hackers'?

From The Guardian:

after several days of WikiLeaks coming under a determined DDOS attack, apparently from hackers friendly to the point of view of the US government

I’m sure the folks behind this are wearing black, but it may not be only their hats. Does the name stuxnet ring a bell? Curiouser and curiouser.

11:20 | Link

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2010-12-03

Attention world governments!

Good luck trying to tell the Internet what to do. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." (http://bit.ly/h2GBVW)
12:30 | Link

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2010-12-03

WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number

WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number: http://88.80.13.160
11:14 | Link

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2010-10-22

Dear Bank of America

I cannot schedule an e-bill to be paid on Veterans Day because your computers take the day off? Seriously? Do you suppose it is a coincidence that I am paying a credit card issued by you that the due date is the day after Veteran’s day? Is it my imagination, or are you trying to squeeze an extra day’s float out of me?

10:38 | Link

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2010-10-09

The iPhone Battery is not Ironman tough

Not even half way through the bike and my battery is dead. I need a solar charger to attach to my hat!
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