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Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 21:39 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Finally, Google has provided a secure way of accessing contact information from a Google account. I for one will be happy to no longer have to hand my password over to a third party to access my account data. It’s also nice to have a standardized way of getting that data that does not depend on screen scraping.
Kudos to Google for releasing this much needed API!
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 @ 10:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Security cat is sad.
Don’t leave your laptop sitting there, and if you turn it off wait a bit before walking away.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 21, 2008 @ 16:07 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via Boing Boing:
This is definitely not good. Don’t leave your encrypted laptop in on/suspended in public kids! Also, if you aren’t at least encrypting your /home directory (or wherever you keep your personal files), congrats on earning the EPIC FAIL.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 14, 2008 @ 14:36 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Trustbearer is now providing an OpenID service that is also linked to physical USB security keys, or even to biometrics like a fingerprint. A very cool extra layer to OpenID security.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 15:37 CST by Daniel Andrlik
The title of this Washington Post article fails to do the material justice. This has to do with U.S. customs officials that have been requiring travelers to turn over laptop passwords (booting their laptops to verify it is correct), copying web history information and occasionally confiscating laptops.
I wish I could say that I didn’t believe this was happening, but this is becoming an all too familiar sort of story in our country.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, December 8, 2007 @ 20:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is a really great guide for setting up your /home directory as an encrypted partition in Linux. Since I’m always a bit data paranoid, and am a sucker for any kind of software tinkering, I think I’ll give this a try on my laptop when I get it back from being repaired.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 @ 22:19 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Final spec for OAuth. I like a lot of what I see, and I’m looking forward to seeing this getting used widely as an alternative to consumers storing login credentials.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ 09:54 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is disturbing, but far from unexpected.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, September 21, 2007 @ 21:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
First draft of the OAuth spec, which aims to provide a standard API for various services to interact with each other in a secure way. So, you wouldn’t be handing over you username and password every time you wanted an app to be able to access your address book, which also means you can limit it’s ability to use the external service it is connecting to. It’s a neat idea, and obviously in the early stages, but we will need this (or something like it) if we ever intend to get over the privacy and security hurdles on the path to portable social networks.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, August 10, 2007 @ 08:31 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is really cool. Ilya Vasilyev runs a sort of dojo where he trains people in hacking. His training ranges from assembly language all the way to cracking and virus design, although his training has a focus on “hacker ethics” and an emphasis on using the skills responsibly. It even has a “belt” system using colored bracelets to denote skill level.
Admittedly, it might give many pause to realize there is a school for hackers out there, but I actually might be a boon to the security industry to know there is a school out there focused on churning out white-hat hackers.
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