Monday, August 16, 2010
Stronger passwords
From a new report on how much better the odds now are for brute force password attacks that employ modern processors. The main point, anything less than 7 characters is crazy and even 12 may be vulnerable without some compositional complexity.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Google as colluding surrender monkey. Again.
First we had the stealth capitulation to Chinese censorship (and maybe worse).
Now capitulation to corporate domination of the Internet.
Ryan Singel say it all in Why Google became a carrier-humping net neutrality surrender monkey, published by Wired.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Words of wisdom
From Ranum’s current front page:
In cyberspace, the old dictum “the best defense is a strong offense” does not hold. The best defense is a good defense. Cyberwar pundits who talk about pre-emption or retaliation are just hanging a sign around their neck that reads “I don’t actually understand the internet, or warfare, or technology newer than WWII-era strategic bombing.”
Friday, May 14, 2010
The underlying engineering teams are so good
The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn’t succeed,” said Ellison. “Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Website is Down: Sales Demolition
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough:
USE HEADPHONES!
Recall where it all began, the classic:
The Website is Down
More can be found at thewebsiteisdown.com.