Niall Kennedy, Sniff browser history for improved user experience: “I have been the browser history of my website visitors for the past few months to gracefully enhance adding my Atom feed to their favorite feed reader. Easily recognized branding such as “Add to My Yahoo” has yielded much higher conversion rates than a simple Atom [...]
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Sniff browser history for improved user experience
February 9th, 2008
Tags: browser · css · javascript · privacy · security · usability · webdev
Steal This Wi-Fi
January 11th, 2008
Bruce Schneier, Steal This Wi-Fi: “Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network [...]
Tags: bruce schneier · security · wifi
Security is a trade-off, just like anything else.
December 4th, 2007
Freakonomics, Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions: “Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Shneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” [...]
Tags: bruce schneier · economics · freakonomics · security
How to delete a flash cookie?
October 19th, 2007
Adobe: How to manage and disable Local Shared Objects. Directe link: Website Storage Settings panel. (N.a.v. Marketingfacts’ Onderzoek Cookie Deletion Marketingfacts.)
Tags: cookies · flash · flash cookies · privacy · security
Lock It Up
October 9th, 2007
MacWorld, I will keep my Mac safe from other users Use admin accounts for administration only Don’t share user accounts Turn on password prompts Encrypt sensitive files
Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists
June 5th, 2007
Bruce Schneier: “Well, the submissions are in; the blog entry has 334 comments. I’ve read them all, and here are the semi-finalists: (…)”
Permanent Eraser 2.3.2
June 5th, 2007
Permanent Eraser: “This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.”
Tags: os x · permanent eraser · security
Cyberwar
June 4th, 2007
Bruce Schneier: “For it to be cyberwar, it must first be war. And in the 21st century, war will inevitably include cyberwar. “
Tags: bruce schneier · cyberwar · internet · security