dieselweasel

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by dieselweasel 15y ago
If you're looking for an overview of cryptography in an easy-to-digest format, take a look at: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Sec
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by dieselweasel 15y ago
This is a good article; I think his suggestions are mostly spot on. Part of my current position is to sit on interview committees. I think I can sum up points 6-11 by simply saying: be interesting and engage the other people at the table. I
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by dieselweasel 15y ago
A thought experiment: Let's say I, a Canadian Citizen, asked someone in Canada to enter a passphrase to encrypt the data on my computer but not tell me what the passphrase is until I safely get to my destination. I cross the border into the
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by dieselweasel 15y ago
VyperVPN (purchased as part of a package through Giganews). It gives me an endpoint in the US, UK, France, EU (unspecified) and Hong Kong. It's possible there are others but I haven't bothered checking in a while.
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by dieselweasel 15y ago
TL;DR: KeePass with Subversion. In my previous position as a systems administrator, I shared responsibility for approximately 120 Unix and Windows servers. We used KeePass to house a master password list which was then stored in a Subversio
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by dieselweasel 15y ago
I live in a house with two adults (42,31) and five kids (20,17,16,6,4). I think we cover several different demographics but are pretty typical otherwise. Everyone in the house streams their media (Netflix, iTunes, downloaded TV series). I a