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Password Managers Relieve Password Headaches 1 Feb 2012 | 08:44 am
Passwords Are a Hassle I’ll be the first to admit I can’t remember all my passwords. Most of us can’t, so we pick a few passwords that are easy to remember and then use them with multiple sites. This...
Your New Year’s Resolution–Pick Better Passwords 30 Dec 2011 | 06:25 am
As we near the end of 2011, I can’t help but think this is the year I had the most trouble telling the difference between actual news stories and pieces from “America’s Finest News Source”, The Onion....
Security, Productivity, and Usability in the Enterprise 1 Dec 2011 | 06:24 am
During interviews I conducted for my dissertation research, I asked individuals how the security policies and systems affected their daily life in terms of productivity and work and personal communica...
The World is Not Flat and Neither Are Social Networks 1 Nov 2011 | 04:14 pm
Now that I and the rest of the Internet has grown accustomed to Google Plus and Facebook’s most recent friend categorization features, I thought it was time to revisit and revise a previously unpublis...
Tracking, Geolocation and Digital Exhaust 13 Oct 2011 | 02:23 am
You are unique… In so many ways… The accounting systems on which modern society depends are surveillance systems when viewed with another lens. All administrative, financial, logistics, public heath,...
SSL Is Critical Infrastructure at Risk 4 Feb 2011 | 08:41 am
Problem Areas for SSL The security of the transactions for much of the consumer Internet relies on the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL and its Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) are critical Int...
ForeverSave Prevents Lost Work on the Mac 1 Feb 2011 | 10:13 am
It’s happened to all of us. You are busy writing, entering data, or working on a slide deck and all of a sudden something freezes and then the application crashes. If either we recently saved the docu...
Time Machine vs. CrashPlan for Backups 11 Jan 2011 | 09:55 am
Trouble in Time Machine Land In my recent article, A Simple and Effective Backup Strategy for Mac OS X, where I recommended a three part backup system: 1) a full disk clone, 2) local incremental back...
A Simple and Effective Backup Strategy for Mac OS X 11 Dec 2010 | 10:39 am
Disk is inexpensive compared to the value of your time and data. My personal backup configuration consists of three types of backups. The following combination has proven itself over the last several ...
Data Evaporation and the Security of Online Identities 2 Dec 2010 | 07:51 am
Disappearing Data What happens to our data when we are gone? What happens to us, when our data is gone? Does any of this missing data make us vulnerable? These questions that once seemed theoretical ...
