I’m as mad as hell at Check Point. They’ve managed to turn my MacBookPro into a brick.
This evening I decided to get around to encrypting my MacBook’s harddisk in accordance with our company security standards. When we bought this first batch of MacBooks we thought hard about how we woud maintain the security standards we [...]
Recently, while making an online purchase, I was asked by a online store to opt-in to the Verified by Visa anti-fraud mechanism. On face value this seemed like a very sensible thing to join up to. All I have to do is provide a password of my choosing that I re-enter each time I make [...]
I’ve been trying to find a way to manage my huge number of website passwords and perhaps store my private data. I came across passpack.com a few days ago and thought I’d give it a try.
After attempting to import my Firefox password list only to told that I had exceeded my allocated number of of [...]
I’m becoming more irritated by organisation who are failing to understand that their secure login systems are anything but.
Any organisation provides me with a ’secret’ number or a passphrase (or restricts what passphrase I can use) that I have to remember to login is effectively putting my data at risk by forcing me to write [...]
During a FOWA workshop Chris Messina mentioned that Will Norris had released version 3.0 of his OpenID plugin for Wordpress. This version not only allows people to login using OpenID, but also allows WP to acts as a provider or delegator of OpenID.
I’ve been waiting for a good robust plugin implementation that would give me [...]