Why HTTPS Is Important
You may have heard of Letβs Encrypt, the free certificate authority who are hell-bent on getting HTTPS everywhere. But why is that little green padlock in your browser so important? Letβs take a lookβ¦
You may have heard of Letβs Encrypt, the free certificate authority who are hell-bent on getting HTTPS everywhere. But why is that little green padlock in your browser so important? Letβs take a lookβ¦
π 22 Mar 2018 | π Blog post
Youβre a technical person. You donβt need to use a password manager, because you have mastered the art of obfuscating your password so it can never be cracked, right? Wrong! Letβs have a chat about why your password is probably crapβ¦
π 04 Jan 2018 | π Blog post
I recently got chatting to someone on Fosstodon about password security and in particular, password managers. But I thought Iβd share my thoughts here also, as I have much more than 500 characters to play with.
π 27 Dec 2017 | π Blog post
We all know that password managers are worth their weight in gold, and the most popular of these by a large margin, is LastPass. LastPass is great, I used it myself for a number of years, but it is fairly expensive since doubling their prices in 2017. So are there any decent, open source alternatives to LastPass?
π 20 Feb 2017 | π Blog post
Around a week ago I wrote a rare Facebook post and decided to share it with my friends on Facebook. I deliberately posted this in such a way to see if I can find out how to get Facebook passwords from my friends. Honestly, I wasnβt expecting a great deal of success from the post, but boy was I wrong!
π 28 Feb 2016 | π Blog post
Whilst doing my usual rounds of nerdy articles on the Internet yesterday, I came across some news that apparently thereβs going to be a Sony and Xbox DDOS attack this Christmas. The βhacker groupβ that are claiming responsibility for this attack are going by the name of βPhantom Squadβ.
π 18 Dec 2015 | π Blog post
π 12 Oct 2015 | π Blog post
π 27 Sep 2014 | π Blog post
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