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 a month I login to PayPal just wasn’t worth it. For the uninitiated, two-factor authentication is when two separate methods are used to verify an identity. For example, a thumbprint and a codeword, or a eye scan and a smart card. The most useful in my and many other’s opinion is a One Time password token, like the Paypal/Verisign security key. This device, which is meant to be carried with you at all times (think, belongs on your keychain, and you keep it in your pocket like a key) generates a series of numbers which depend on….
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 stream (much like this one will be posted to my twitter stream). At first I thought the goal was to get as many people to follow you as you can. Then I read this post from Scobleizer that basically says: it’s not who follows you but who you follow. After mulling over this I realized it does make sense… I realize I’m not going to be as popular as some of the heavyweights on Twitter, and that really shouldn’t be your goal. My personal goal on twitter is to be connected with others, see whats….
Categories: Other Technology,Social Media,Software
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: 12[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’: 12[root@server1 wordpress]# alias alias cp=’cp -i’ Sure enough – alias is set on Redhat Based systems into -i, or interactive mode. Remove this alias with ‘unalias cp’ and it will be removed. Happy copying!
Categories: Linux,Shell,System Administration
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