The Leopard Ate My FileVault
Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 @ 6:55 am
Filed Under Computing, Macintosh
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Fortunately, I backed stuff up before the install, and won't be much hurt except for the aggravation. Nonetheless, it's annoying. At this point I'd say it's unlikely that I'll turn FV back on when I get the laptop running again. Let's just say I like the idea better than I like the implementation.
Spoofing a Website
Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 @ 4:48 pm
Filed Under Security
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F-Secure's blog points to a Harvard University study of the ways folks (fail to) identify security indicators on spoofed/phishing websites. Truly fascinating.
Myfip Worm Analysis
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 @ 8:55 am
Filed Under Computing, Security
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One of the unanswered questions is what the thieves do with all the files this tool sends back to the FTP server. If they were to capture everything on my work PC, they'd get a middle manager's desktop conglomeration: Thousands of more-or-less useless files and a few dozen documents which would probably be valuable to someone. There are also a bunch of database files (in several formats) which could be mined, but aren't clearly useful as they stand. I have trouble finding stuff in this mess; how would someone who doesn't work here make sense of it?
Of Mules and Identity Theft
Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 @ 8:58 am
Filed Under Security
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Feel insecure yet?
PopFile occasional report
Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 12:12 pm
Filed Under Computing, Joel, POPfile
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On the whole, this is excellent performance, with some minor (and predictable) blind spots due to peculiarities that are as much mine as the program's. Except for the lack of a good loader for Apple systems, I can heartily recommend the program; the installation issues appear to be unique to the Mac platform, and shouldn't trouble Windows or Linux users. Prospective users shouldn't expect perfection, and some effort is required to train PopFile about your mail system. But it's automatic, reliable, and quite impressive.
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