Brits are crap at password security

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10.3: Use a password analyzer to improve
password security

10.3: Use a password analyzer to improve
password security 10/30/2003 12:37 AM
If you try to change the password for a Keychain using the Keychain Access app, you'll notice on the resulting dialog box a circular button with an 'i' in it, as seen in the inset in the screenshot. If you click on it, Panthe...

Small.biz crap at security (redux)

Small.biz crap at security (redux) 08/18/2004 10:50 AM
How do we ever survive?

Security Focus: MS Word password tool
not for security

Security Focus: MS Word password tool
not for security 01/07/2004 05:35 PM

Crap Service for Crap Hound

Crap Service for Crap Hound 08/12/2004 09:14 AM
Dotster has its wicked way with Cory Doctorow. Any more horror stories involving them, or is he just unlucky?

Notes and Tips: Password Security
Problem

Notes and Tips: Password Security
Problem 07/09/2004 10:11 AM
Readers dig into the issues of Mac OS X password security after yesterday's warning.

APC Security Advisory - Static factory
password vulnerability

APC Security Advisory - Static factory
password vulnerability 02/19/2004 12:47 PM
security.advisory_at_apcc.com (Feb 18 2004)

Cisco develops WLAN security protocol to
defeat password attacks

Cisco develops WLAN security protocol to
defeat password attacks 02/12/2004 06:15 PM
Cisco has developed a new WLAN security protocol designed to defeat password attacks that made an earlier, proprietary protocol vulnerable.

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption.

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption. 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has released Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR), an application that allows business managers, information technology support administrators, and law enforcement officials to gain access to Microsoft(R) Office(R) password-protected documents, that have been accidentally or purposefully password protected. New product combines the latest and the most advanced cryptanalysis algorithms developed by Elcomsoft's research department. AOPR is capable of instantly recovering passwords for a wide range of Microsoft's business and office applications, including all components of MS Office, from the very first DOS versions to Office 2003 programs, including the ones for Windows, Mac, Pocket PC and localized versions. Over 30 different types of password encryption methods are supported. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Personal
Assistant User Password Bypass
Vulnerability

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Personal
Assistant User Password Bypass
Vulnerability 01/08/2004 08:28 PM
Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team (Jan 08 2004)

Cisco Security Notice: Cisco IPsec VPN
Implementation Group Password Usage
Vulnerability

Cisco Security Notice: Cisco IPsec VPN
Implementation Group Password Usage
Vulnerability 04/15/2004 06:20 PM
Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team (Apr 15 2004)

the Brits have all the fun

the Brits have all the fun 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
CNUK (as in CN-UK) (as in the webcast radio station in Exeter) has launched "a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to creating and promoting creative works that can be built upon, shared and sampled. All not-for-profit, with for-profit options left available to the creators."

IE is crap

IE is crap 06/24/2005 10:03 PM
KatjaW pointed out that my blog looks like crap on IE these days (both side bars are missing). Well, it does work pretty well on every other browser I've tried (don't use Windows at all at home, so I can't be bothered to check on IE whenever I change the template, and Mac IE is braindead when it comes to CSS most of the time anyway), so frankly, I'm tempted to leave it as-is for IE users. Or maybe just disable the difficult bits, and leave a very plain experience for IE users. According to my statistics, less than half (41% to be exact) of my readers use IE anyway...

Maybe I can be bothered to do something about it someday. Tips appreciated.

Update 24.06: Tweaked the CSS a bit and added some explicit "display:block;" -commands to some places, which seemed to required on IE (boo hiss). It still looks a bit crappy (and the window is too wide), but now at least you can see all the content.

With crap like this

With crap like this 04/02/2005 02:14 AM
Google Ride Finder .. RideFinder

labs.google.com/ridefinder
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The Brits: Did the right bands win?

The Brits: Did the right bands win? 02/17/2004 03:41 PM
The UK music industry is honouring the best in British and global talent at the 2004 Brit Awards. Send us your thoughts

Brits welcome Luvania to EU

Brits welcome Luvania to EU 04/29/2004 11:58 AM
Proud new member of family of nations

Brits value PC more than heirloom

Brits value PC more than heirloom 09/12/2004 11:59 PM
Press Association Sep 13 2004 3:42AM GMT

Brits unimpressed by e-Gov

Brits unimpressed by e-Gov 07/19/2004 04:23 AM
Cost billions, but totally invisible

12% of Brits use UK e-government

12% of Brits use UK e-government 04/06/2005 02:26 AM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 5:32AM GMT

Tomcat Crap

Tomcat Crap 06/24/2004 05:51 PM

Urgh.  I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why JNDI JavaMail session stopped working.  Previously, I had Tomcat 5.0.26 beta installed and it was working just fine.  In an attempt to debug another problem, I peddled back to 5.0.25, which is the latest version without any beta tag, and found that I couldn't send e-mail out from an webapp.  Error message was rather bland so it took me a while to find the relevant bug report.  Guess what?  5.0.25 build left out some key classes related to JNDI JavaMail session support.  Heck, I think I'll go back to the beta version and keep my fingers crossed.

More Crap From Dvorak

More Crap From Dvorak 12/29/2004 03:30 AM
I thought about doing a detailed rebuttal about John Dvorak's latest turd, Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis, but I couldn't get past the second sentence before I realized that a thorough debunking would take more time than I have....

Oh holy crap...

Oh holy crap... 03/12/2003 10:16 PM
MacFixIt - Camino nightly builds may not be as stable “We’re seeing lots of feedback from people that are surprised the current Camino nightly builds aren’t as stable as the ones leading up to the 0.7 milestone. This is to...

Holy Crap

Holy Crap 07/29/2004 09:58 PM

So I just got an email from my friend Jessamyn, who might be on tonight's Daily Show, and I guess she somehow got Ed Helms to do this:

Like I said, holy crap.

Why IRC is crap, yet useless

Why IRC is crap, yet useless 06/07/2004 05:57 AM
After several (well, since 1989 anyway) years of experience on IRC, I still probably can count the useful hours I've spent there using one hand only. (Then again, I can count in binary.)

But the reason why IRC is interesting is that it functions as a collective subconscious. On some channels certain things pop up constantly, even though nobody really cares about them. For example, on #go.fi people talk about EGF rating points. These have no significance for any player whatsoever, unless you are a very strong. But they are a slightly-better-than-randomized way of evaluating performance. So everybody has some interest. On #joiito, most of the discussion is completely incomprehensible, yet those people feel a strange connection, and gather together at conventions.

IRC is like a common subconscious, where thoughts come and go, tucking in different directions, yet never converging. Most of the discussion on any channel is bullshit. Pure and honest crap. Nothing but the equivalent of waving your lips in the wind in the faint hope a meaningful sentence will appear, if you keep producing syllables just long enough.

But it's common crap. That crap which binds us together, and builds communities. Some people have this odd notion that "social activity" is the same as sitting in a pub, drinking beer and talking horseshit. Fine. The important thing is "crap".

All of social software is mostly about crap. This is what the CSCW folks never realized - they thought it was important to increase productivity and get more achieved through computer-assisted work. The social software phenomenon (weblogs, Orkut, LinkedIn, IRC, chats, bulletin boards, ...) is built on the notion that people wish to talk crap. They enable you to use your time idly, do nothing, because conscious thoughts (and the inevitable good ideas) rise from the subconscious soup of crap. I think that's why Wikis haven't really flown is that they are not that good places for crap: the community deletes anything that is not considered to be in line of the other contents of the wiki. They don't allow the subconscious simmer of thought in the same way as IRC. It remains to be seen how much crap will surface on Orkut or Friendster, and whether that amount is enough to allow them to survive. (I've noticed I don't use Orkut anymore, even though I am listed. There's just so little point.)

The Finnish IRC service IRC-galleria, is really a place for IRC regulars to post their picture and have comments appended to it. However, there are now many young people, who put their pictures on the IRC gallery, and then "go ircing" on it - meaning posting comments on other peoples pages on the IRC gallery, creating large amounts of anger among those who know what IRC really is. I think this is a wonderful example of "crap in action" - if you build a way for people to discuss, they will come.

The societies are built on crap. The internet is built on crap.

Crap is good. Keep talking bullshit, and while the world may not be better, at least it will be a far more interesting place. :-D

Too much crap over the phone

Too much crap over the phone 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
I just got the same push-poll that jenniebee did: A push-poll kind of group, calling themselves "Dove" called me this morning, wanting to screen me to see if I wanted to be inundated with calls from an outfit called "Feature...

ReMove CRAP

ReMove CRAP 07/11/2004 08:06 PM
Initial file release

Free Crap

Free Crap 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
I'm honored to be included in The Silicon Valley 100, a group of influentials formed by Auren Hoffman that gets free crap.  Its kind of like schwag for a virtual tradeshow with a decentralized  cocktail party.    Newsweek has a...

Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP!

Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP! 09/22/2004 02:56 PM
Utilikilts: Comfort, Style and Utility for Today's Modern Man - committed to pioneering a comfortable alternative to trousers by producing "Men's Unbifurcated Garments".
I can't decide if its a joke or not. I think it began as a joke and then people started ordering them. Note the trendy Surviv al Kilt (currently on backorder) or the stranger looking than the others and that's saying something Denim Kilt. And don't worry about the beer gut, fellas, they've got an option for a special cut just for you ($25 upcharge but comfort knows no price!).

Like crap, falling from the sky

Like crap, falling from the sky 01/11/2004 07:04 PM
Well, it's officially happened. Someone wrote an automated comment spammer for Movable Type. As I type this, I'm watching repeated netstat show port 80 connections, and seeing the "MT-Blacklist comment denial" messages show up in the log. (36 so far) After 37 of the damn things actually made it through (some while I was in the midst of de-spamming things). Whups, make that 40 of the damn things. A few more just slipped through. And even more on the logs, and I'm not going to bother counting. (Okay, I did. 70 were blocked, 38 made it through (I mis-counted) in...

In pictures: Brits in action

In pictures: Brits in action 08/21/2004 05:49 AM
Pictures from Athens as Britain's rowers get the day off to a great start at the Olympic Games.

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi 08/06/2004 11:44 AM
So much for Intel's Centrino advertising

Brits apathetic? Apoplectic, more like

Brits apathetic? Apoplectic, more like 09/16/2004 07:05 AM
Letters Vive la revolution!

Brits develop streetwalking PC

Brits develop streetwalking PC 09/08/2004 08:34 AM
Stick it on your desk and get on the job

Brits are text maniacs

Brits are text maniacs 04/27/2004 01:07 PM
2.1bn messages sent in March

Brits still a far cry from Americans
(Reuters)

Brits still a far cry from Americans
(Reuters) 09/20/2004 07:30 PM
Reuters - Men are abandoning their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey shows.

Brits willing to carry ID cards

Brits willing to carry ID cards 04/30/2004 05:05 AM
There was a report on the BBC last week (link below) that 80% of British citizens were willing to back a national identity card scheme. The biggest objection was that it might cost them 35 GBP (roughly $60) for the card. Contrast this with the thoughts of security spokesmouth Bruce Schneier (link below) - "My objection to the national ID card is much simpler. It won't work."

Brits avoid MMS in droves

Brits avoid MMS in droves 05/12/2004 08:27 AM
Just not interested, it seems

Comments on Bomb Crap

Comments on Bomb Crap 05/03/2004 09:42 AM
Advanced methods of bomb detection and investigation. New equipment developed to scan cars and people, such as a parking lot device which quickly bathes the car's trunk in invisible neutrons, a procedure that makes materials inside the trunk emit gamma-rays that would indicate the presence of explosives. Also, a bomb disposal robot which take[s] fingerprints before blowing [a] package up.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-13

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-13 05/13/2004 06:28 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

holy crap that's a big boat

holy crap that's a big boat 04/22/2004 06:55 PM
this NY Times slideshow demonstrates that the Queen Mary 2 is freaking gigantic
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Notes and Tips: Chocolate Barcode

Notes and Tips: Chocolate Barcode 08/05/2004 10:21 AM
What's the best way for these chocolate-makers to print barcode labels from a Mac?

Barcode Automator 3.0: batch barcode
generation suite

Barcode Automator 3.0: batch barcode
generation suite 09/01/2004 12:03 PM
Intelli Innovations today released Barcode Automator 3.0, a major upgrade to its batch barcode generation suite. It offers a streamlined interface for creating barcodes in bulk from a text file, spreadsheet, manually entry, or via automation from a FileMaker Pro database (or other AppleScript function).

Thermoacoustic Cooler Means
Green-Friendly Icecream

Thermoacoustic Cooler Means
Green-Friendly Icecream 04/29/2004 07:48 AM

Calling Out Cadbury Schweppes

Calling Out Cadbury Schweppes 02/19/2004 11:23 AM
The drinks and candy company's business is a tough one, but it's a player.

Cadbury Schweppes Schlepps Along

Cadbury Schweppes Schlepps Along 07/21/2004 02:49 PM
It's slow growth for the soft drinks and confectionaries company.

Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone

Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone 03/25/2005 11:52 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Rob says,

Because it's Easter, I find myself in the possession of a Cadbury chocolate product. What do I find on the back?

"Cadbury, ellipse device, dairy milk, the glass and a half device and THE COLOUR PURPLE are Cadbury Limited trademarks used under licence in New Zealand by Cadbury Confectionery Ltd."

All our purple are belong to Cadbury Confectionery Ltd.!

Link

Update: Kevin Fox sez

In regards to Cadbury trademarking the color purple, four years ago I was working as a boom operator on an independent film and noticed that the boom manufacturer, Mr.LongArm, had trademarked the color yellow. I thought it was funny enough to document. blog post (tangential), and photo.

MartinS in Germany says,

Check my compatriots: been there, done that. German Telecom also thinks they own the letter "T". Link one, Link two.

Thomas J. Brown says:

In addition to Cadbury trademarking the colour purple and Mr. LongArm trademarking the colour yellow, my mum used to work for an ad agency that held an account with McDonalds. They have specific shades of red and yellow that are trademarked. I've also heard tell that Mattel owns green (G.I. Joe) and pink (Barbie).

ADX Florence

ADX Florence 04/13/2005 02:32 PM
During the 1990s, both the federal government and many state governments experimented with a new type of prison dedicated to maximum security prisoners, known as a & quot;supermax." Such prisons are formally known as "Administrative Maximum" (ADX) prisons at the federal level, and the only federal ADX is in Florence, Colorado - ADX Florence. On top of confining inmates to their cells for 23 hours a day, such prisons usually feature soundproofed cells, near-total deprivation of human contact, and a routine policy of solitary confinement.

The text is from here, which isn't really related but got me searching for ADX-Florence, and lead me to the HRW site that inspired me to share.

Whiskey Bar: Modernizing Hemingway

Whiskey Bar: Modernizing Hemingway 03/19/2005 02:19 AM
"The Rocks of Kilimanjaro." .. points us .. Billmon

billmon.org/archives/001749.html
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Cold weather cools Cadbury sales

Cold weather cools Cadbury sales 09/24/2004 05:57 AM
The world's biggest confectionary group, Cadbury Schweppes, says profits will be lower than expected as wet weather hits cold drinks.

N.C. Man Wins Hemingway Look-Alike Prize
(AP)

N.C. Man Wins Hemingway Look-Alike Prize
(AP) 07/25/2004 03:54 PM
AP - On his eighth try, a North Carolina real estate broker — with a silver-white beard and khaki fisherman's vest — won the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest.

Global Warming Picnic

Global Warming Picnic 05/19/2004 09:13 AM

We had a week or more of summer in the first week of May this year, while last year at this time it was still snowing on occasion. It was weather that begged for a picnic and so a few of us obeyed.

The weather has snapped back to its more normal pattern, but I can't help but be concerned when it's early May and 80+F in Finland and I read articles like Arctic Temperatures Warming Rapidly Polar Explorer, where a polar explorer describes the extreme amount of melting in the polar ice cap. The Arctic ice  has thinned by 40% over the last 20 years so you have to wonder what the dramatic change in the ice over the past year will mean in terms of climate change. The Helsingin Sanomat carried a story yesterday, Finland's climate may become warmer by up to 5°C, coming in the next 50 years, which would make Finland warmer than most of Southern Europe. Not to be forgotten is the Pentagon report: A n Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security. The movie The Day After Tomorrow is being released later next week which will have the effect of making global warming seem like nothing more than an action movie that lasts 2 hours and has the typically happy American ending in spite of the premise for the movie being scary enough to prompt the Pentagon to study worst-case scenarios.

I understand why people don't want to believe in the idea of global warming or dramatic climate change as the consequences are dire, but no amount of optimisim can change the course that nature is on. There has been enough research into past climate changes to support the theory of polar melting initiating a dramatic climate change via gulf stream disruption. It doesn't even need to be dramatic as the very well written, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, describes. So, go enjoy the nice weather while it's here since all the evidence suggests that there may be few years remaining where we can.

Hemingway Bullfight Tale From 1924 Turns
Up

Hemingway Bullfight Tale From 1924 Turns
Up 09/27/2004 05:09 AM
A previously unknown story and a letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have caused a dispute between those who want to see them published and those who don't.

Rainy cobbles in Florence [Flickr]

Rainy cobbles in Florence [Flickr] 09/25/2004 12:03 PM

"zIpPy PiCnIc on hampstead heath (UK)"

"zIpPy PiCnIc on hampstead heath (UK)" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

Today the big IPO, tomorrow the company
picnic

Today the big IPO, tomorrow the company
picnic 08/19/2004 08:36 PM
USA Today Aug 20 2004 0:37AM GMT

Intel To Refine Mobile PC With
"Florence"

Intel To Refine Mobile PC With
"Florence" 02/17/2004 02:42 AM
Intel Corp. this week will show off its latest concept PC, "Florence", emphasizing mobility for different lifestyles and featuring a second LCD panel plus an embedded wireless mouse that also doubles as a VOIP phone.

Realtor Wins Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest (Reuters)

Realtor Wins Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest (Reuters) 07/26/2004 07:16 AM
Reuters - A North Carolina realtor beat out a teetotaling short story writer from Kazakhstan and nearly 140 other snowy-haired, bearded men from around the world in this year's Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

Florence Nightingale's pet owl comes
home to roost (Reuters)

Florence Nightingale's pet owl comes
home to roost (Reuters) 07/29/2004 08:24 AM
Reuters - Florence Nightingale, the crusading saviour of wounded soldiers who almost single-handedly turned nursing into a respected profession, had a soft side too.

Community News: OS/PHP Picnic Request
for Interest

Community News: OS/PHP Picnic Request
for Interest 05/17/2004 01:19 PM
Alright all of you East Coasters, there's an event that you might want to check into and get some more details on - the Open Source/PHP Picnic to be held in Wilmington, NC.

Estate agent wins Hemingway look-alike
contest (Reuters)

Estate agent wins Hemingway look-alike
contest (Reuters) 07/26/2004 12:35 AM
Reuters - A North Carolina estate agent beat out a teetotalling short story writer from Kazakhstan and nearly 140 other snowy-haired, bearded men from around the world in this year's Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

1,000 Google Millionaires Gather For
Summer Picnic Today

1,000 Google Millionaires Gather For
Summer Picnic Today 08/20/2004 02:31 AM
FinancialWire Aug 20 2004 7:02AM GMT

It's No Picnic Outfitting This Elite
Fleet of Rafters (Los Angeles Times)

It's No Picnic Outfitting This Elite
Fleet of Rafters (Los Angeles Times) 07/06/2004 08:11 AM
Los Angeles Times - SUN VALLEY, Idaho — When some two dozen rafts barrel down the Salmon River on Wednesday, New York investment banker Herbert Allen will be in his ceremonial post at the head of the caravan.

Satanic Cult Probed in Monster of
Florence Murders (Reuters)

Satanic Cult Probed in Monster of
Florence Murders (Reuters) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Reuters - Almost 20 years after the last murder blamed on the "Monster of Florence," investigators have reopened the case because they suspect a Satanic cult ordered the killings and kept body parts as prizes.

Morning News Online - Florence, Myrtle
Beach | Inspector says he warned U.S.
officials of Iraqi prisoner abuse

Morning News Online - Florence, Myrtle
Beach | Inspector says he warned U.S.
officials of Iraqi prisoner abuse 05/08/2004 04:54 AM
David Kay, the man who led the U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, says he repeatedly told people about problems with the interrogation of prisoners, but the military ignored him. 5/8 .. before leaving Iraq .. speaks

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Barcode X

Barcode X 01/22/2004 05:09 PM
Provides the ability to create Industry standard highly accurate Barcode images for inclusion in artwork, and also print labels.

GD-Barcode-1.15

GD-Barcode-1.15 04/24/2004 06:14 AM

Scorpion BarCode 1.70

Scorpion BarCode 1.70 09/09/2004 10:45 AM
Helps with easy creation and printing of all major bar code symbologies in EPSF or PICT file formats.

Barcode Producer 2.0.5

Barcode Producer 2.0.5 11/03/2003 04:03 PM
Customize and create high-resolution barcodes.

New: Easy Barcode Pen

New: Easy Barcode Pen 04/28/2004 10:16 AM
Easy Barcode Technologies released the Easy Barcode Pen, a pen-shaped, USB-powered scanner designed to read barcodes into any desktop application.

Barcode Yourself - Scott Blake

Barcode Yourself - Scott Blake 02/18/2004 10:42 PM
Hello, my barcode is 116014711760 .. Cdigo de barra personalizado .. [Bar Code yourself.] .. you can be a number .. maak uw barcode .. obtenha o seu .. (new window) .. shopping .. barcode ..

barcodeart.com/art/yourself/yourself.html
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Brits are crap at password security

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