Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone – The Daily Beast.
Thought this might be of interest given my post last week on why I prefer Android over iOS.
Jan 102012
GRCs | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? .
Nice tool to test out your current passwords for strength. Note how merely adding a repetitive character to a “weaker” password makes it exponentially stronger. For instance, “dumbp@swd” survives 1.02 days of Offline Fast Attack, but add a single “.” to the end of it and this increases to 1.98 months. Make it “dumbp@swd..” and now you’re talking about 9.75 years!
I’m going to be upgrading a few of my most important passwords taking this kind of thing into account. I already ensure that all my passwords for online sites are generated to be at least 10 characters mixed case, with at least one special character and one numeral. Running a couple test cases from my LastPass password generator indicates that these are safe from Offline Fast Attack for multiple years of cracking. I don’t have enough of anything to make that worth an attacker’s time <grin>.
Jul 292011
6 Reasons SaaS May Mean A Return To Silos.
Enterprise IT integration is a completely different world than Web 1.0 / 2.0 / Social Web. One is built from the viewpoint of being behind high, guarded walls to serve a closed community that is provided windows to the outside world as needed. Moving to the cloud means blasting the windows open to being full two-way roads to the outside world. At that point, the walls are effectively down and now the pain is how to integrate the inside and outside the former wall items. Which “standards” do I pick as my standard? Which standards am I going to be forced to use because they are used by the services I must support? What middle-ware / middle-service is available to help me integrate / interface what exists today and help me continue to migrate / evolve into the future?
Mar 162011
Apple plugs 57 major security holes in iTunes | ZDNet.
57!? Wow, no wonder I hate that piece of software.
Like I’ve always said, Apple is given way too much credit for being “more secure” than MS. Truth is that there hasn’t and still isn’t enough of a userbase to provide enough ROI for attackers to focus on attacking it. If the user community sizes were reversed, MS would have the claim to “more secure”.
Feb 112011
http://prezi.com/
For the paid version an iPad app is provided as well.
