You probably heard about that fact that running Windows with an administrator account isn’t a good idea, even though that is the default setting. I tried not doing that on my main machine, but it turned out to be quite a pain in the digital butt. After a few weeks of having to fast-switch to [...]
A while ago over at the GMail Blog they announced that from now on you could start using GMail more securely than ever. Awesome! All you have to do is follow the instructions on their blog post, and enable https mode for all your GMail actions in your options, ét voila, you where so much [...]
“painted master” by Darwin Bell, cc-licensed Security is something you should know a few things about as an application programmer. In fact, if there is one thing you should know is that you don’t know jack about security, or at least not much. When it comes to down to figuring out your own security scheme [...]
Ok, consider this. You want to create a new account at some web service, but you don’t have your KeePass database handy to generate and store a newly generated complex password. You know that you should use a complex password instead of something easy to guess. The problem is that something complex like “NeZ13ysOVK3yTVrHcG1N” is [...]
The German government is making some odd waves lately. I posted about their odd internet censorship policy before affecting Flickr users in Germany, but there’s two posts on Hadez’ blog that really made me raise an eyebrow to who’s in charge of one of the most powerful countries in the European Union. First there was [...]
Spammers have a lot of tricks up their sleeves lately, and I almost fell for one of them a few weeks ago. I got this German email that looked like I was being sued for something. Now I don’t master the German language, but it’s close enough to Dutch to get the general idea that [...]
If you’re as geeky as I am you probably have a shitload of account spread all over the net for all sorts of websites like Flickr, Yahoo, the mighty Google and some more obscure ones. The shitty part of all these accounts is that if you want to be a bit secure you have to [...]
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