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I command a force of nature. I welcome comments which say 'thank you', add to a discussion, or are meaningful in some manner. Will be deleted without notice. I reserve the right to require captchas on comments for non-logged-in users. If you do not like them, login using the link in the header. Password Policies and Password Security. The Instagram Terms of Service Debacle: My Perspective. Password Security for Here and Now: The User's Perspective. Overheard on the CRA Phone Lines. Life is not Read-only.
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I command a force of nature. Password Security for Here and Now: The User's Perspective. On Wed, 09/19/2012 - 8:42am. It seems that the year 2011 was "the year of the break-in", where large databases of usernames and passwords were compromised in large numbers. This seems to be continuing into the current year. And this is a major problem, no doubt about it. This post aims to explain why break-ins are such a big deal. So as a user of these systems, how can you avoid this? Password reuse is the scourge of...
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I command a force of nature. On Thu, 09/13/2012 - 12:05am. Near two years without a post. Yeesh. That's a record, even for me. Nevertheless, upgrades are coming. Including:. More photo galleries (though perhaps in another form.). And sometime in the future, a Drupal core upgrade. Perhaps I'll wait until version 8 comes out, then upgrade to that. All comment submissions must follow the Comment Policy. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Enter the code above: *.
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The Instagram Terms of Service Debacle: My Perspective | ryanernst.com
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I command a force of nature. The Instagram Terms of Service Debacle: My Perspective. On Fri, 12/21/2012 - 1:36am. I've always thought of Instagram as another photosharing site, but not a place where the users post pictures of cats and their credit cards. Given that I'm not a fan of posting every photo I might have taken to the 'net at large, I hadn't signed up for an account there. Nevertheless it was interesting to watch the blowback from Instagram's proposed terms of service change. The fact is that a ...
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I command a force of nature. Overheard on the CRA Phone Lines. On Sat, 04/30/2011 - 11:55am. Or, press the star key to the left of the zero. Out of the blue, that struck me as odd. To the left of the. I guess that you could say the pound/hash/number sign looks. A star pattern. Might be cultural differences: I don't know for certain. A bilingual government sometimes does strange things. For you trivia buffs: it has many different names, including Octothorpe. Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
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I command a force of nature. Password Policies and Password Security. On Mon, 05/19/2014 - 6:14pm. A lot of systems I've seen have 'password policies' that actually make user accounts on the system less secure. Here's a checklist of things that actually make your security weaker. But first, some fundamentals:. The number one hazard. Of storing passwords is password reuse. Has a great effect on security. In general, the longer the password is, the harder it is to crack. Obviously a password '. Mandatory p...
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I command a force of nature. Password Policies and Password Security. On 2014/05/19 - 6:14pm in categories: Programming. A lot of systems I've seen have 'password policies' that actually make user accounts on the system less secure. Here's a checklist of things that actually make your security weaker. But first, some fundamentals:. The number one hazard. Of storing passwords is password reuse. The Instagram Terms of Service Debacle: My Perspective. On 2012/09/19 - 8:42am in categories: Security. In most ...
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