The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer

This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my exploration...

In Defense of Security Theater (Sorta)

I travel often, and until relatively recently I was doing over 100,000 miles a year. I’ve cut back a lot because my jobs have changed and I felt bad about my...

Unrobbed

Yesterday and early this morning, while talking about our impending move to a new apartment a few blocks away in a much bigger building (and no longer on the...

Web History's History

I found some really interesting responses to the launch of Google Web History that are all well worth visiting. CNET’s Margaret Kane has a roundup of news on...

I'm Just Making Stuff Up

Features that didn’t make the cut for Windows Vista. For those of you who already think I’m too much of a Microsoft fanboy, check out the list. My favorite is...

Greasemonkey Insecurities

Today’s most interesting mailing list posting : Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don’t trust having it on my computer at all. I would think...

easier passwords

Oh, and all you alpha testers, you can just get in with the user/password beta1/simple which should be easier to type.

sharp as a razor

One of the things that troubles me about my daily routine is that we seem to have devoted a disproportionate amount of our culture’s scientific resources to the...

stupidity.gov

This is stupid. A while back, it was discovered that the U.S. government’s registration site for .mil domain names was wide open , making it possible for anyone...

shadow government hijinks

Since I work at a newspaper, I try to scan the headlines from time to time to find stories that are newsworthy enough for us to link to. Every once in a while,...

blogger gets hacked

Post-Hack Update Blogger’s completely back up , including bStats and the API. It seems (again, I don’t work for Pyra, but I’ve had information confirmed by Ev)...

Etag

Super geekiness alert: Would some kind hacker please make Apache fill the Entity Tag header with a server-generated PNG thumbnail of the page. And fill the...