Tuesday 5 November 2019
by Wulf
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If I’ve done this right, you are now seeing my blog via a secure, HTTPS connection rather than the plain ol’ HTTP one that has been in place thus far (or you will be using a feed aggregator and won’t … Continue reading
Thursday 17 December 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Climbing onto El Capitan
That is, upgrading my Mac to the latest version of OS X, not scaling the mountain in Yosemite National Park. So far the experience has been pretty uneventful and things mainly look the same although a few details have changed. … Continue reading
Friday 20 November 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Making LastPass a bit more secure
I attended an information security meeting today and was surprised to find that many of the colleagues there didn’t rate LastPass as a password manager tool. There wasn’t time to find out the fuller details but I did some reading … Continue reading
Wednesday 18 November 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Gun Control
From the BBC News website: “If you create a product that allows evil monsters … to strike innocents – whether it’s at a game in a stadium, in a small restaurant in Paris, take down an airline – that is … Continue reading
Wednesday 12 August 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Time for a Geek Post
I think I’m due another geek post. I haven’t indulged in one for a while and I want to press home what I learned today. The challenge was to get an application running on a Windows box talking to a … Continue reading
Wednesday 24 June 2015
by Wulf
Comments Off on Signed, Sealed, Delivered
One of the little projects I’ve been playing with at work this week is using public key cryptography, based on OpenPG, to transfer potentially sensitive material to a colleague in another department and I think we’ve cracked it. The challenge … Continue reading
Friday 13 September 2013
by Wulf
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I feel that I have fairly good password habits, covering all the commonly suggested bases of making them long, containing a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation. A tip I haven’t seen so often is to … Continue reading