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Re: Samaritan Snare

Bart Busschots — Thu, 21 May 2015 16:46:28 -0000

Regarding Worf and the Pacleds, my feeling is that Worf was more like a stopped clock than a perceptive security office. His answers ALWAYS to be suspicious - he's usually wrong, but if you say the same thing often enough, you'll eventually strike it lucky!

Re: Why Thieves Would Rather Steal Your Apple Watch Than Your iPhone

Bart Busschots — Mon, 18 May 2015 11:41:10 -0000

I think your article is let down by the fact that you don't mention that every other watch on the planet is the same as the Apple watch in this regard.

Re: Apple stops development of Aperture

Bart Busschots — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:17:45 -0000

The name Aperture doesn't matter, what matters is the functionality. Aperture and iPhoto already share a library format.

If this new unified app gives me the same editing sliders that I now have in Aperture, then this is a good news day - one unified app with cloud syncing and all the power of Aperture!

On the other hand, if all we get is the paltry few sliders iPhoto has, then this is a very sad day indeed.

Annoyingly, this article gives too little information to actually be of any use. All it does it worry people, but without giving them any of the facts they need to know what this news actually means for them.

Re: Whoops! Those iOS-Generated Hotspot Passwords Are Really Weak

Bart Busschots — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:55:35 -0000

I'm disappointed that this post does not show any example passwords.

Using dictionary words CAN actually be a way of generating secure and memorable passwords IF you generate long enough passwords, and pad the words with symbols and numbers. It would be very hard to argue that the following is not a strong password:

++65-Goodbye-Gibraltar-Wheels-Present-91++

That is heck of a lot easier to call out to someone than a much shorter random string, and because it's 42 characters long, mixed case, with numbers and symbols its got a lot more entropy going on than an 8 or 12 character random string.

XKCD make this point very well: http://xkcd.com/936/

Re: Path Social Network in Another Privacy Dustup

Bart Busschots — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:38:46 -0000

"users are the product to social networking sites, not just the customers." - Path is a free service, so users are not customers, they are ONLY product. It should come as no surprise that a company that turns user data into profit does slimy things with that data - that is their business model. All financial incentives are pushing them to do creepy things. It's very important to follow the money before signing up to any service.

Re: My weekend with Sophos Anti-Virus for OS X

Bart Busschots — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:23:44 -0000

I've found ClamXav to be a nice un-intrusive and free AV for the Mac. It has a checkbox to allow you to toogle mail scanning on and off. For exactly the reason you explained, I work with that turned off, and I've found that there is no daily maintenance work with ClamXav. I have it set to auto-update definitions once a day, and to run the Sentry on my home dir. I watch it's little icon wiggle a bit every time I save or alter a file, but that's really my only awareness that it's doing anything.

Re: TMUP 145: Using Mac and Windows together

Bart Busschots — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:28:33 -0000

Hi one1step1,

If I mentioned layer 0 that was a definite mistake. In hind-sight I should probably have used the names rather than the numbers, possibly less confusing though a lot more of a mouthful for me! I started by saying I'd be talking about the 4 layer TCP/IP model. I did mention OSI once, but only to say that I wouldn't be talking about it because it's far too complex and really just used academically.

I'm pretty sure I kept the layers straight for most of the segment, if I didn't then I can only apologise.

Bart.

Re: iPhone SSH clients review: iSSH, pTerm, and TouchTerm

Bart Busschots — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:53:08 -0000

Which of these clients DO support SSH running on ports other than 22? For that that's the most important thing. Most of my servers have SSH on a non-standard port for security reasons.

Re: Victor’s Mino Thoughts 06/26/2008

Bart Busschots — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:05:14 -0000

I tend to have two modes fro getting new apps, I either stumble across on the on RSS or podcasts, or I go hunting when I need a particular thing to do a particular task.

Re: Victor’s Mino Thoughts 6/20/2008

Bart Busschots — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:01:03 -0000

For me Twitter is my social peripheral vision. It lets me keep up with what people I don't see regularly are up to. Have they been at an interesting conference? Have they been to a good pub? What are they watching on YouTube? What software are they using? Are they liking it? What are they out photographing? Or, in the case of the Phoenix Mars Lander, what great sience is it up to today.