I have a new post up on Makeuseof, regarding Firefox Addons for Privacy and Security. Maybe you won’t use all of them but even installing some of them (NoScript in particular) can really lower your chances of getting hit with a javascript exploit.
Categories: Programs, Security, Software
Tagged: extensions, firefox, privacy, Security
As soon as I heard PayPal would be offering a $5 Security Key for additional security while logging in, I jumped on it. A few days later, it arrived in the mail. It’s a great idea, but I decided that carrying a little secure key that generates special numbers for the 3 times [...]
Categories: Hardware, Security, Social Media
Tagged: cellular telephone, MyOpenID, openid, Security, smart card, target site, two factor, USD, verisign, Verisign Labs PIP
Twitter is a great social tool – halfway between an Instant Messaging client and e-mail. You can leave messages for people publicly or privately, and you can even import RSS feeds into your own twitter stream. It has blog integration in that you can have your blog put every post you make into your Twitter [...]
Categories: Social Media, Software, Tech
Tagged: Instant Messaging, social tool, Twitter stream
Wow – I get so frustrated when I try to copy some files over old ones and I get:
[root@server1 wordpress]# cp -Rf * ../public_html/
cp: overwrite `../public_html/license.txt’? y
-R is recursive, but -f is supposed to copy over without confirmation. What could it be?!
Check out your alias command using ‘alias’:
[root@server1 wordpress]# alias
alias cp=’cp -i’
Sure enough – alias [...]
Categories: Linux, Shell, System Administration
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