Cryptographer & Johns Hopkins professor Matthew Green details why he’s switching from Chrome. Google simply aren’t making decisions in their users’ best interests anymore.
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Paragon Initiative Enterprises wrote a nice blog entry on how to
generate secure random numbers in various languages awhile back. They
did leave out Common Lisp, but it’s easy to do there, too:
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How to install Linux Mint on an encrypted volume
One of the few things I miss about Fedora when using Ubuntu and related GNU/Linux distributions is the ease of setting up fairly complex disk partitioning schemes. I’m a big believer in disk mirroring (to protect against hard drive failure) and in encryption (to protect against data loss due to hardware theft), and Ubuntu requires use of an alternate, text-based installer while Linux Mint doesn’t even do that much.
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One of the few things I miss about Fedora when using Ubuntu and related GNU/Linux distributions is the ease of setting up fairly complex disk partitioning schemes. I’m a big believer in disk mirroring (to protect against hard drive failure) and in encryption (to protect against data loss due to hardware theft), and Ubuntu requires use of an alternate, text-based installer while Linux Mint doesn’t even do that much.
Fortunately, this is Linux, which means I have all the tools I need to get this to work.
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A eight-character password is hardly sufficient to protect your data; a multi-word passphrase is necessary. But how should one be chosen? Diceware Passphrases are chosen completely randomly using a large list of English words (I would recommend adding a nonsense word in the middle of the phrase in order to confuse anyone knows that you use the system).
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A eight-character password is hardly sufficient to protect your data; a multi-word passphrase is necessary. But how should one be chosen? Diceware Passphrases are chosen completely randomly using a large list of English words (I would recommend adding a nonsense word in the middle of the phrase in order to confuse anyone knows that you use the system).
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The Register has sponsored a comprehensive comparison of Windows and Linux security, and has posted a brief summary as well. The upshot is that Linux — while imperfect — is much more secure than Windows.
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The Register has sponsored a comprehensive comparison of Windows and Linux security, and has posted a brief summary as well. The upshot is that Linux — while imperfect — is much more secure than Windows.
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Windows is so insecure that it’s impossible to secure it; in the time between installation on the net and downloading vital patches, it will already have been infected. Friends don’t let friends do Windows.
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Windows is so insecure that it’s impossible to secure it; in the time between installation on the net and downloading vital patches, it will already have been infected. Friends don’t let friends do Windows.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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