Category Archives: security

Norton hates Firefox

I swear, I was about to buy a new motherboard and/or reinstall everything. Firefox was working fine except for one tiny problem. Just a little one. Not a big deal. Every minute or so, it would hang. No click response, … Continue reading

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Never assume that some things are universally obvious

I got a WTF in the mail yesterday: We recently noticed that you may have had trouble using your password to sign in and administer your site. We’ve fixed a glitch that affected your account, and have temporarily reset your … Continue reading

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Microsoft tries the whole reality distortion field thing

On the same week as it’s revealed that Vista users have to worry about audio files trashing their machines, we get this quote from Bill Gates: “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come … Continue reading

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Oh, they’ve got the password, that’s not the problem here…

This is great – Bruce Schneier’s got an article on choosing good passwords, and a lot of it is about some product called the Password Recovery Toolkit, which according to Schneier’s article can guess passwords at a phenomenal rate. I … Continue reading

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