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Jan 3, 2019

a semi-permanent psa on passwords

Passwords should never expire: https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/blog/time-password-expiration-die Passwords should not be changed often: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html Password “complexity” is — mostly — a joke: https://www.xkcd.com/936 You have been breached: https://blog.augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches

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Dec 4, 2018

the genie of the lamp

A Polish gentleman was walking through Krakow one afternoon, and found a curious object covered in dust and grime. As he was cleaning it, out popped a genie. “I am the Genie of the Lamp™. I will grant you 3 wishes. Choose wisely.” The gentleman asked, “3 wishes? …

Genie

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Genie

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Oct 9, 2018

rethinking pi-hole (again)

About 2 years ago, I started running Pi-hole as a DNS resolver and ad-blocker. Then last year, I ditched it. After seeing a recent post by Troy Hunt, though, I thought it might be worth revisiting..but I needed a better way to control how it worked. Enter {{OpenVPN}} — a…

Ads

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Ads

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Jun 26, 2018

6 movies

I want you to watch these 6 movies (in this order): The Wizard of Oz Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Night of the Living Dead (1968 edition) The Godfather Pi Inception Watch them with a notebook and pen or pencil handy (yes: use physical writing and recording tools; don’t use your…

Movies

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Movies

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Jun 5, 2018

Ben Thompson missed *a lot* in his Microsoft-GitHub article

Ben Thompson is generally spot-on in his analysis of industry goings-on. But he missed a lot in The Cost of Developers this week. Here’s what he got right about this acquisition: Developers can be quite expensive (though, $7.5B (in equity) is only ~$265 per user (which is pretty cheap)) Microsoft…

Acquisition

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Acquisition

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May 31, 2018

remembering to forget

As a society, we have forgotten how to forget. We are addicted to storing everything forever. Why? New Atlas had an article recently on the demise of skyscrapers in favor of new ones which starts off, The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood at a height of around 460 feet…

Forget

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Forget

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May 7, 2018

volvo moving towards waze-like functionality

Shared a TechCrunch story recently in a G+ group I’m in on Volvo debuting a new service to upload live traffic data from its vehicles to be sent to other Volvos so they can avoid problem areas. Or…a self-built and -hosted Waze. You may recall that I wrote some about…

IoT

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IoT

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Apr 20, 2018

on internet sales tax

The debate is raging again as the Supreme Court of the United States is getting ready to make a decision on collecting sales tax for online sales. I’ve read as many viewpoints from supporting and detracting from requiring businesses to collect sales tax from their customers. And my [current] view is that all businesses conducting business online should collect the sales tax you would have paid if you went in person.

Salestaxes

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Salestaxes

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Mar 27, 2018

4 places to check your website’s ssl/tls security settings

Qualys — https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest High-Tech Bridge — https://www.htbridge.com/ssl Comodo — https://sslanalyzer.comodoca.com SSL Checker — https://www.sslchecker.com/sslchecker Originally published at antipaucity.

Security

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Security

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Mar 8, 2018

more thoughts on |stats vs |dedup in splunk

Yesterday I wrote-up a neat little find in {{Splunk}} wherein running stats count by ... is substantially faster than running dedup .... After some further reflection, I figured out the major portion of why this is — and I feel a little dumb for not having thought of it before…

Splunk

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Splunk

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