E-Mail Cleanup
While this series of articles is Mac-specific and Mail-specific, most of the tips offered can be used with other e-mail clients on other platforms...
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Writing
I like to write...
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Time Machine Failed Me
I'm disappointed in this "run it and forget it" thing...
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E-mail "Stationery": Just Say "No"
Short version: using e-mail 'stetionery' is evil...
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Data Classification
I provided some input into an article by writer Mathew Schwartz, who quotes me in the article Classify This...
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It's not just who you are, it's who your friends are
I've saved this clipping in my "BlogMe" mailbox since February...
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Other Cocktails
As I have previously mentioned, a gin Martini is my drink of choice, up with an olive...
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More on Big Bang Mark2
Right, not really...
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Notes from a Boring Meeting
Every meeting can start with a contest...
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In the Beginning
I had to chuckle...
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Easy Spam Filter
I just need to figure out how to code this up: IF The From: address is all in capital letters The word "widow" is in the message body and either The Subject is "greetings in the name of the lord...
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Conventional Wisdom vs. Wisdom
In February, Dark Reading published, The Myth of Conventional Wisdom...
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The More Things Change...
I was interviewd for Access Control and Security Systems Magazine...
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Time Machine Error
As I mentioned in System Back-ups, I have and do use SuperDuper...
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Comcast Anti-spam Measure
Apparently, in it's never-ending battle to thwart spam, Comcast (apparently) recently started to require that connecting e-mail servers have a valid PTR record so Comcast's email servers can do a PTR (pointer) record lookup...
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New Firewall Technology? Maybe.
I read Startup Launches New Firewall Line posted by Andrew Conry-Murray...
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Router Rooter
I've praised the Radio Free Security, Watchguard's security podcast, before...
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Internet Safety
Recently, I responded to a posting on Apple's discussion list asking if she needed to get 3rd Party Security Software...
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Martinis Are Good for You!
Well, that's what I hear...
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Revisited: From Zero to Expert in Your "Spare Time"
In June of 2001, I wrote a column for WatchGuard Technologies called From Zero to Expert in Your "Spare Time", a "Foundations" piece...
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Leopard: The Good Stuff
I'm just going to touch on a few things, as Apple certainly has—with greater flare—shown off Leopard's features...
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Playing with the Dock
You can find a lot more about changes to the Dock in Leopard elsewhere on the web...
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Do I Really Want an iPhone?
The other day as I folder my clamshell phone and held it before slipping it into my back pocket I realized that it was the perfect shape and size...
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Raise Your Shields
I used the firewall under Tiger...
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Leopard: Problems
After the install, everything came up all pretty...
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Docks and Stacks
A great entry in Macworld's "Leopard Survival Guide," check out Dock and Stacks
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Leopard: The installation.
This is the first installment after Leopard Installed...
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Skype with Video for Mac
In my blog Time to try SightSpeed, I wrote, "When Skype comes out with video conferencing for Mac, I'll try that also...
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PGP and Leopard
I've been a fairly happy PGP Desktop User...
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Leopard Installed!
As I mentioned earlier, I put off installing Leopard until 10...
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Freeing Up Space
I needed to free up space on my 12" PowerBook G4 today...
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Another Expensive Loss, This Time Due to Email
The headline said Lilly's $1 Billion E-Mailstrom...
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Potentially Expensive Laptop Loss
For the one who lost it, that is...
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Leopard
I've been trying to think up a reason to upgrade to Apple's new OS...
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Who's Your Daddy?
Yesterday, I spoke with Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor at Dark Reading...
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System Back-ups
In entry My Mac Let Me Down (Sort of), I talked about a hard drive crash on my PowerBook G4...
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"Many Retailers Open to Wireless Attacks"
Shocking, but true...
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"I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
Yes, I am old and some of you will not remember HAL 9000, from 2001: A Space Odessy, but the older folks will remember that line...
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Internet security moves towards good, old idea of default deny
We do keep going back to the same old (and) good ideas...
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Irony in Advertising
I clicked on the Yahoo News item to view the new bin Laden video...
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You Still Can't Trust the Internet
I mean for accuracy, not for connectivity...
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Martinis, #2
Never order a martini at a "cocktail reception" at a hotel...
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My Mac Let Me Down (Sort of)
This morning started out like any Saturday morning, for the most part...
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False Sense of Security
Some colleagues and I at APL were talking about the very old subject of the uselessness or dangers of a false sense of security...
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Radio Wave Scare Redux
This BBC News report, Wi-fi...
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Just after keyboarding a blog entry today, Why Proper Security is Not a Reality, I read a post in my friend Dave Piscitello's blog, which points to his article, Sad and Deplorable State of Internet Security, Revisited...
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Why Proper Security is Not a Reality
Now, here is an interesting point...
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Click here to install virus
The Fox news article, Hundreds of PC Users Click On 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad brought back fond memories...
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Vista Brings out the Passion in Users
Okay, so another former Windows-lover has moved to Mac after being "disappointed" by Vista...
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Thoughts from a road trip with the radio blasting and the top down
Love is...
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'Big Bang' project put off to 2008
I read a Reuters' story on CNN's web site that CERN is using giant magnets in "First tests in a scientific project aimed at solving mysteries of the universe and the "Big Bang" which created it ...
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Radio Free Security
Driving into the lab this morning, I listened to an installment of Radio Free Security, from WatchGuard Technologies...
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Still Empty After All These Years: Holy Trinity Breathes Sigh of Relief
Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack God the Father, Son, and Spirit issued a joint statement saying, "Whew...
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Information Assurance
I work in the information assurance area at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab...
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Slide Presentation Behavior
There are many ways to tell amateurs from the pros...
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Another Windows Expert Moves to Mac
If you came here because you are thinking of making the move, you'll find my experiences and opinions here...
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I Just Thought This Was Funny
Surely you've seen at least one of the "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads...
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On Acting Like a Jerk
Just because someone is a Christian, doesn't mean he won't sometimes or often act like a jerk...
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Five Words
At the Ministry Fair Across the bustle of the Ministry Fair in the Fellowship Hall I saw him...
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Those Dirtbags
I've noticed emails with an exe at the end of them...
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Another "Convert"
I know there are a lot of them...
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Shocking News! You can print fake boarding passes on your printer!
I am being sarcastic, you know...
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Another Security Expert Heard From
"I think we're all Bozos on this bus...
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Tweak to my Spam Barrier
I—like a lot of you—was getting lots of "buy this hot stock" spam...
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Love, No Longer "Love and Hate"
As of a few weeks ago, I was still having the problem I mentioned in Still Love and Hate Mail...
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Top SIX Reasons Why I Hate Network- and Computer-Security [UPDATED]
In Stating the Obvious, I said that "Information Security … experts are constantly stating the obvious," and that "This will be one of 'Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Computer and Network Security,' which I will blog next week...
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Experts
This is the third of the Top Six Reasons Why I Hate Network- and Computer-Security I spelled it out with examples in Another Security Expert Heard From, and in it I point to some on-line examples and to some earlier blog entries...
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Disposal of Data Disks
Recently, I've used Active@KillDisk to remove data from some old hard drives from obsolete computers before taking them to the dump...
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Top Ten Security Threats
Background: This is from a 3 or more year old course I gave in support of what I say in The same old stuff further in support of Top Five Reasons Why I Hate Network- and Computer-Security...
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The same old stuff
This is the second of the Top Five Reasons Why I Hate Network- and Computer-Security...
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Top Ten Security Admin Errors
Background: This is from a 3 or more year old course I gave in support of what I say in The same old stuff further in support of Top Five Reasons Why I Hate Network- and Computer-Security...
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More on Stolen Notebook* PCs
Just a short one on this, as this problem has become commonplace...
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Notebooks not Laptops
We don't call them "laptops" since they overheat and explode...
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Yet another reason I am still glad I switched to Mac
Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed
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E-Cards
You've gotten them, right...
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Samba Between Fedora Core and Mac OS X 10.4.5
Strange problem...
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In Information Security, Experts are Constantly Stating the Obvious
This will be one of "Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Computer and Network Security," which I will blog next week...
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Do I need a docking station?
My cabling is a mess...
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"Macs Safer," says Sophos
"It seems likely that Macs will continue to be the safer place for computer users for some time to come...
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Cool PDF Writing Software
On my PowerBook, I don't need any special PDF writer...
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Another reason I am still glad I switched to Mac
"Customers have been crying out for a tool which could tell them if they have been duped," she [Michala Alexander, head of anti-piracy for Microsoft, in the UK] said...
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The Missing Manual
David Pogue's Mac OS, The Missing Manual: Tiger Edition, is an interesting, enjoyable, and useful read...
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Laptops and PII Losses (UPDATED)
This has been a bad summer, so far, for laptop loss...
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USB Attacks
This is an interesting, if obvious, attack...
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PodWorks—providing what should already be in iTunes and isn't
In a previous blog, I discussed why I needed something like this program...
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Unfriendly Behavior with iTunes
Let me start my saying that I am trying to use an unsupported, non-recommended set-up...
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Still Love and Hate Mail
I am still enjoying a love/hate relationship with Apple Mail...
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Weird Science #1 This Week
It was a strange week...
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Weird Science #2 This Week
And this, from the Canada Free Press, in response to Al Gore's version of Scary Movie, Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe...
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20 Reasons I am still glad I switched to Mac
Check out Computerworld's article by Scot Finnie, Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won't Like About Windows Vista...
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Extraordinary Crimes, Extraordinary Means? Back-ups again.
"Woman targeted by web hackers," is the headline of this BBC News article...
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Another Linux Desktop
In October, 2003, I wrote about my experience with a $200 computer from Walmart and its Lycoris operating system, in A Linux Desktop...
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Pitching Windows for Linux
Another voice heard from...
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Ready to Give Up on iChat to PC
I spoke to my friend, networking expert Dave Piscitello, who said It sounds like the Westell does port-based NAT (PNAT)...
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Longer than Average Wait
When I saw this during an installation, I figured I had time to grab a cup of coffee… maybe two...
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Time to try SightSpeed
I've been struggling with trying to get iChat to AIM to work...
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No Joy With iChat to AIM
It really should be easier...
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VoIP -- Unexpected Benefits
Many are getting the benefits of Voice over IP—using your broadband Internet connection for telephone service...
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Mixed Feelings about Video Chat
One of the things I cared about (somewhat) in the transision from PC to Mac was thjhe question of what I would have to give up...
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VOIP and Vonage
I've finally gotten rid of my ISDN phone line I've had since April 1998...
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Macs Just As Vulnerable
Macs Just As Vulnerable To Wolverine Attack...
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Book Review: Just Say "No" to Microsoft by Tony Bove
On October 18, 2005 I mentioned this book and pointed to this interview with its author...
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Good-bye to AV
You may recall, in PowerBook Day 1 and Following, I said "I did install ClamXav, an open-source antivirus program...
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Mac E-mail Again
I mentioned earlier—in Moving to the Mac, E-mail—that I had moved to using the mail application (Mail...
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Mac Calendaring and Address Book
It's been over 3 months since I converted to (almost) exclusively using a Mac...
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Secure Email Day in the Big Apple
I am again leading Secure Email Day at Interop New York on Monday, December 12, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center...
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The Heart is Unreliable
This caught my eye in the November 1 "Good Morning Silicon Valley"...
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Apology 2
I said the same thing in a May posting here...
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Compuwar Security Fora
My friend, Paul Robertson, has just started a brand spanking new security discussion web board...
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Thunderbird, Again
I've written and lectured many times about e-mail security...
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Five reasons NOT to use Linux
I've been carrying around this pointer in my Inbox since August...
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RSS Newsreaders -- sorry about that
Earlier today I discovered (through a reader) an error in how I had my RSS feed configured...
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Mac Security
I've meant to mention ths, and keep forgetting to do so...
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From Nigeria, With Love
I cannot believe anyone reading this has not heard of the "Nigerian Scam" (also called 419 after the Nigerian anti-fraud statute)...
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Moving to the Mac, E-mail
I promised I'd describe moving to Mac e-mail in this installment...
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Special Delivery: Secure E-mail
Months ago I was asked to teach a "secure e-mail session" for an Infosecurity "Security Leadership Conference...
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Rita Approaches
One Associated Press headline: " Rita Plows Across Gulf; Evacuations Begin...
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E-mail Clients I Have Known
Recently, I've been blogging about my move from PC to Mac (see PC2Mac...
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IE to Firefox
No, not me...
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Certify This!
Larry Kettlewell, CISP for Kansas State Government's Department of Administration has a terrific "perspectives" piece in the August 2005 Information Security, with the title "Paper Pushers" I've written on the subject in Security Redux, pointed to someone else's comments in Certifications, Again, touch on it briefly in Paranoia: How Much is Too Much...
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Mac Virus?
An interesting discussion of the (parhaps mythical) Mac virus on Slashdot...
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Marcus Ranum's 'The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security'
Long-time friend and colleague Marcus Ranum has written an editorial worth checking out (that's redundant)...
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Mac Browsers and Messaging
This entry, I'll discuss browsers and instant messaging...
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Wells Falgo, Forgo, Whatever
I received a warning about my Wells Fargo account the other day...
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PowerBook Day 1 and Following
Summary: So far, so good...
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After Windows, What?
I'm a few week's into abandoning Windows for my PowerBook and I am doing just fine...
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Dude, You're Getting a Mac!
I am going to write a series of blogs discussing how it is I now use an Apple PowerBook G4 (12") and have essentially pitched my Windows PCs...
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Data Breaches
My RSS server pointed me to this securitypipeline article, entitled, "Hackers Break Into Two Universities, 100,000 Identities At Risk...
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Email Security: Threats, Countermeasures, Tactics
I'm doing a members only briefing on email security for The Institute for Applied Network Security on August 9, 2005 as part of their Institute Virtual program...
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Vulnerability Analysis Tools, Again?
A securitypipline article caught my eye today...
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Security of Backup Data
A former collegue at Trusted Information Systems, Tommy Ward, writes, "If your company is like many others, you have put a lot of effort into securing your information systems...
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News Flash: Security is an Architecture
Another "ground-breaking column" in Network Magazine, (do we still say "in" when it is "on" the web page...
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Massive Credit Card Exposure (updated)
If you read any Internet-technology-based news, you know that a recent security breach may have exposed 40 million credit card numbers...
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Google Sightseeing
Complete time-waster department...
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Audit Those PCs
Are file-sharing programs a security matter...
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Suggestions from my Credit Card Company
I (almost) never read the extra pages included in my credit card bill...
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Marcus Ranum Interview
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A Short Review of PDA Defense
At a recent Institute for Applied Network Security Forum, I handed my PDA to my friend and colleague, Robin Roberts of Cisco, to show her some family photos...
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Cryptography and Criminal Intent
slashdot points to this Computerworld story that says, "A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent...
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Five Reasons I Hate Computer and Network Security
I just checked my Vitae -- I've been doing this (computer and network security) full-time since 1992, and part-time for a few years before that...
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The Same Old Drum Beat
A few week's ago at Interop, Marcus Ranum penned (okay, he 'keyed...
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Phishing -- Just say "no"
This is just a friendly reminder...
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Schneier on Spam
Last week at Interop, at Secure E-mail Day, one of the discussion topics was spam...
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Security Limerick
As I mentioned here, "it is traditional, at the faculty-hosted 'Gala Dinner' of the Institute for Applied Network Security Forum, for the faculty to be the entertainment...
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Apology
I've been preoccupied with personal things and busy-ness with work...
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Stolen Laptops Again
Why won't we learn...
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The Catcher in the Rye
I've been haunted by a song recently...
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WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL AWARD!!!
You would think that notification of big winnings in an international lottery (for example, the HEMALOTERIJ NL,/INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAMES...
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Secure Email Day
As I mentioned earlier, I am leading Secure Email Day at N+I in Las Vegas on Monday, May 2, 2005...
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Security and Relationship
At the faculty-led round-table discussion at the recent Mid-Atlantic Network Security Forum, my discussion topic was "Keeping your sanity while positively influencing your enterprise security posture" (or maybe it was a bit less wordy)...
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A Security Haiku
The background: it is traditional, at the faculty-hosted "Gala Dinner" of the Institute for Applied Network Security Forum, for the faculty to be the entertainment...
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Iraq Election Slide-show
Instapundit points to a slideshow of photos from the elections...
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What would your grade be?
InfoWorld reports "U...
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A Really Ugly Side of the Internet
Today in my RSS newsfeeds were a few items that got my stomach churning and my blood boiling...
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Seven Things to Help Keep Sanity and Equilibrium
In reading the Firewall-Wizards thread under the subject VPNmadness gets more support, I thought of a paper I wrote almost 5 years ago, entitled The Rise and Fall of Internet Security...
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Eudora and Firefox Exploits
Vulnerabilities were announced in two of my favorite computer tools on the same day...
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Eudora to Thunderbird?
How I got here I describe in Eudora and Firefox Exploits...
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The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus Ranum
I reviewed this book in a much much earlier blog entry...
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Security Awareness Education is Not Enough
In August 2004 I talked about the effectiveness of security awareness education (in Report Suspicious Activity)...
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Notes from my prayer time today
I believe: The 2 Great Commandments (1...
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Lost Laptops
No, this is not a discussion about obesity (yuk, yuk)...
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More on Hotspot (In)Security
In a recent short blog entry, I pointed you to Wayne Rash's column and added a few suggestions of my own...
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Safety at Hotspots
Wireless hotspots are ...
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My Most Current Spam Barrier
In June 2003's NetSec Letter #27, "Spam Control," I described various methods of controlling spam, including my set-up...
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What Every Home PC User Needs (UPDATED--see below)
Last year, when I was still writing the monthly NetSec Letter I wrote promoted Personal Firewall Day, an idea of friend and security colleague Paul Robertson...
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Malware -- the threat is real (Updated)
A friend was spending part of his day last week cleaning up malware (adware, spyware) from a home computers, including his business computer in his home office...
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E-mail Security: We Still Don't Bother
In an e-mail exchange with Dave Piscitello today, he asked about RSS Newsfeed readers...
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Spyware/Adware Removal Disables XP Pro
When my daughter came him from college for Christmas break, she brought her Windows XP Professional computer with her...
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History Lost
I've lamented the loss of historical memory a few places this year...
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Low-tech, High-quality Biometrics
Infoworld reports "EU moves closer to biometric passports...
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Scarey Security Stories
A few years ago on the firewalls mailing list, someone disclosed management's lack of security clue in the following plea (dated Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:22:10 -0600): Is there anybody out there that can help me get some configurations right on our new Gauntlet firewall...
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Spyware/Adware Removal Disables Windows98 Machine
I am writing this brief "incident report" because when I was trying to find information about this problem, searching on the Internet turned up nothing useful...
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IT Security for the Non-technical Manager: A Book Review
Friend and colleague Jim Litchko has self-published a book aimed at educating executives and managers in the basics of IT security...
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Low-tech, High-quality Biometrics
Infoworld reports "EU moves closer to biometric passports...
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Disconnect
In his latest "Web Informant," my friend and colleague, David Strom wrote: I have an idea for a new reality TV show: take a dozen families and cut off their Internet access for two weeks...
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Tightening XP Security
I taught at NASA Ames recently...
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Producing Your Network Security Policy
My editor at WatchGuard Technologies, Scott Pinzon, said in part, "Producing Your Corporate Security Policy" has drawn a phenomenal response...
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Trip Report: Information Security Decisions October 6-8, 2004
I attended and spoke at the Information Security Decisions conference in Chicago...
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Lax Security Will Catch Up With You
Sometimes we can get away with lax computer security for a time...
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New Columns Posted
I have written for LURHQ Corporations's On the Radar newsletter...
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Too much time on their hands?
The headline caught my attention: "Ancient fungus 'revived' in lab...
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Proven strategies for securing e-mail
On October 13 at 16:00 GMT, I'm doing a "webcast...
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Router and DMZ Best Practices
An Institute for Applied Network Security member recently e-mailed and asked me: What are the best practices for securing your Internet router and also securing your servers on a DMZ...
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Another reason to think twice about MS Windows
I'm thinking the folks in Redmond just never want to see the words "Microsoft server crash" and "causes 800-plane pile-up" in the same sentence...
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Who's fooling whom?
We believe what we read on-line, even when we know it is false...
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Appreciating the Importance of History in Network Security
The Institute for Applied Network Security posted a column I wrote...
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The Connected Generation
This generation is more "connected" than any other in our history...
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Arrrrrg.
"Firewall vendors such as Check Point Software Technologies and Juniper Netscreen are touting new application-layer filtering capabilities, and these are important advances...
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Report Suspicious Activity
Any of us who drive the Interstate Highway System in the US have probably seen centrally-controlled highway information signs...
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More Same Old Stuff
Ira Winkler, in a searchSecurity column, says more of the same old stuff...
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Scrap MS Word?
We've heard (or made) recommendations to scrap MS products...
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The Things I Hate About Outlook
These are some of the features I hate about Outlook...
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Spam Firewall Bogon Alert
Maybe I am just cynical...
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No place is too far removed
Slashdot reports that the South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice...
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Kennedy Can't Fly
One of the most recognizable US Senators -- perhaps recognizable throughout much of the world, Senator Edward Kennedy, had trouble boarding his flight from DC to Boston, and then when he tried to return...
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Homeland Security Certification
Business has been a little slow, so the mailer caught my eye...
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Outlook - Just say "no".
"Refusing to join the modern world [in not] implementing Microsoft Outlook" I will have more to say in another blog entry...
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Finally, a just punishment for spammers
The headline caught my eye: "Web Spammers Can Be Beaten in Two Years...
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Same Old Simple Things Addendum
Marcus Ranum has written up the discussion I mentioned the other day...
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Same Old Simple Things
I was re-reading one of Marcus Ranum's posts to the firewall wizards mailing list...
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Book Review: The Day the World Came to Town, 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Yes, I've got a thing for remembering 9/11/2001 (see the picture on the bottom of my home page)...
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Forgetting History
Well, I screwed up...
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The CISC versus RISC Debate
You may well wonder "What debate would that be...
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Microsoft defaced
Okay, that's not new nor surprising...
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Push to talk -- what to do?
Recently, I ranted about PTT technology on mobile phones...
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But, is it Actionable?
Is it me, or is the word "actionable" finding its way into conversation...
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Paranoia: How Much is Too Much?
We in computer and network security, and those who claim to be, find ourselves talking about paranoia...
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Push to talk
Who thought that this is a good idea...
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Useless Warnings
Some large corporate network has been targeted for attack by "the hacking community...
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Spam -- a brief historical perspective
I noticed InfoWorld's online special report E-mail is broken...
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My Current Spam Barrier
Almost a year ago, I wrote a column entitled Spam Control...
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This about sums it up
This was on an ISP's newsgroup...
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God does not promise...
To never embarrass me...
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Terror Attack Using Livestock?
The Fox News Network headline said, "US Prepares for Possible Terror Attack Using Livestock...
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Your job as a security manager
Andy Briney's Information Security March 2004 column echos things I tell students in my classes...
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Is Security a Black Art?
In his logoff column in Information Security magazine, Andy Briney opines that "As long as it remains a black art, security will be the enterprise's black eye...
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Cyberwar
"Of course you know, this means war...
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National Cyber Security Day
So, how did you observe National Cyber Security Day...
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Outside Counsel
Think about this statement...
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Security Across the Software Development Life Cycle
The National Cyber Security Partnership Task Force today issued a report on applying security across the software development lifecycle...
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The Heck with ignorant programmers
It is my custom to use "special" e-mail addresses for subscriptions to certain services...
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Rethinking Network Security
Lisa Phipher, vice president of Core Competence, Inc...
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Certifications, Again
Recently, among other topics I talked briefly about certifications...
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Microsoft adding security applications
Remember when you needed a 3rd-party disk-defragmenter for ...
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E-mail Postage Due -- Eweek editorial
Ed Bride, an editor with Computerworld puts forward a dreadful idea in an eweek guest editorial...
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Authenticated E-mail as Anti-spam
Jon Udell caught my eye with an interesting Infoworld at article...
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Security Redux
Something is going on in the network security world...
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Significant Security Answers
There are some general answers that are verys significant if asked in a security context...
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Martinis, #3
Order a martini in Ukraine at your own risk...
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Basis for Salvation
In his weblog cataloging his thoughts and growth in the Orthodox Faith at http://confessio...
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What Character Are You?
Okay, so why am I disappointed...
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Secure Security Products?
Quick -- What was the first commercial firewall product with an announced serious (as in, one could "get root") security vulnerability...
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Secure Coding? Of Course.
Andy Briney, in his February Information Security Magazine column, called "Secure Coding...
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Getting Rid of the Last Click for Secure E-mail
It is well past the "live" date, but through the magic of electronic media and the Internet, you can catch Jon Callas' webcast on "The Dawn of Pervasive Encryption" at PGP...
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You Tried to Send a Virus... Or Did You?
In recent months I, probably along with many of you, received e-mail from an MX server informing me that the e-mail message I sent to someone (someone I did not know) contained a virus...
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Save your sanity -- Backup that PC!
As computer disks have gotten larger, we, their users, store more and more data on them...
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Worse than the Real World
My good friend and some-time colleague, Kevin Shivers works in information security on the front lines...
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Stuck with IE, No Longer!
In this entry, I mentioned (understatement) how I could not get Navigator nor Firebird nor Opera to do what I wanted and so I was stuck with IE...
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My Fourth Grade Teacher
It is 100 other things, but Christmas-time is also when we find out if our address books are up-to-date...
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The Dilution of Truth on the Internet
"Not only is all human knowledge on USENET, it's typed in every two weeks...
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The Institute for Applied Network Security
I spent an interesting and unique 2 days this week with some fascinating people in the computer security field...
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What do we think firewalls do? (Fred Rants)
Do firewalls just filter on IP packet header information...
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther (1483)
If you did not see the 2003 movie Luther you've missed a good one that was in and out of the theaters too quickly...
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Char Sample Quote
"Due to popularity, the definition as become vague...
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Stuck with IE
Here's what I want to do...
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Gates Promises ...
As I sat in the United 757 at O'Hare, waiting for the consumation of our delayed take-off, I glanced across the aisle and read the headline in a fellow passsenger's Chicago Sun-Times: "Gates Promises More Windows Security...
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Scary words
I just got this week's issue of "Web Informant" (http://strom...
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Book Review: The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus Ranum
This is a review I posted to Amazon...
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All in 1 Security Devices
Recently, Internet Security Systems, Inc...
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A Linux Desktop
I needed a second system on which to build a second web site and e-mail server...
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Digestion
In one of my first blogs, I discussed how and why I decided on using blosxom...
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Verisign stops name redirection
A quick follow-up to the original mention, ICANN gave Verisign until Saturday at 6PM PDT to take down their "SiteFinder" "service...
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Risks Reads
In the "Arts & Society" section of Sunday's Baltimore Sun (28Sep2003), Larry Williams reviewed the book Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You by David Ropeik and George Gray (ISBN: 0618143726)...
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