#security (142 links)
- Sniff browser history for improved user experience niallkennedy.com
Clever, well-meaning but crosses the privacy line.
- dormando - Dormando's [crappy] Operations Mantras dormando.livejournal.com
An omega post of all of the generalized one off mantras I find valuable when approaching operations management.
- SSHKeychain sshkeychain.org
Painless ssh key management for OS X
Create as many encrypted vaults as you want, each with separate passwords. Then schedule automatic backups. You can even reformat USB sticks and external drives as encrypted Knox vaults.
- Ned Batchelder: October 2007 nedbatchelder.com
"When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content". Great tip
- Adactio: Journal - The password anti-pattern adactio.com
Asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable. Here’s why: It teaches people how to be phished.
- The Identity Corner » The problem(s) with OpenID idcorner.org
Comprehensive listing of problems with OpenID. FUD? Not FUD? Couldn't say myself but author competes in that space. OpenID + Passwordmaker.org is working well for me.
- PasswordMaker. One Password To Rule Them All.™ passwordmaker.org
A small, lightweight, free, extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, and Yahoo! Widgets which creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else.
- Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware - Security Fix blog.washingtonpost.com
Absolutely insane.
- O'Reilly Radar > Pros and Cons of OpenID radar.oreilly.com
What are the Pros and Cons of OpenID currently? Here's a crack at it (from the Radar Team)
- How to turn your blog in to an OpenID simonwillison.net
"An OpenID is simply a URL. My OpenID is simonwillison.net, the address of my weblog. I can use it to sign in to any site that supports OpenID, and because I’m the only person with control over my weblog’s homepage I’m the only person who can use th
- Sxipper: Sxipper sxipper.com
"A free Firefox plug-in, Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and personal data." OpenID ready.
A mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo’s authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.
By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations.
- Why phishing catches punters | The Register theregister.co.uk
Scary. "If you haven't read Why Phishing Works (850Kb PDF) - written by Rachna Dhamija, J D Tygar, and Marti Hearst - stop what you're doing now and go get it (or at the very least, read a short summary of what it offers)."
- Mail relay testing abuse.net
- jesus is a pervert: Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits! jesus-is-a-pervert.blogspot.com
- Wired News: The Eternal Value of Privacy wired.com
The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
- Free condoms for your Windows install | MetaFilter metafilter.com
More on SVS: "Safely install software in a virtual layer".
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- Hamachi : Stay Connected hamachi.cc
Organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.
- Default Passwords cirt.net
- Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com strongspace.com
A secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or with any modern web browser.
- smo's Proxy BYPASSER thesmo.com
- PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall portforward.com
- the-cloak home the-cloak.com
- Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system tor.eff.org
Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more.
- JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY anon.inf.tu-dresden.de
JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably.
- Keyring for Palm OS: introduction gnukeyring.sourceforge.net
- Password generator bookmarklet angel.net