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Matt Honan on the End of the Age of the Password

Matt Honan on the End of the Age of the Password

By tigtog on November 28, 2012

Times have changed. We’ve entrusted everything we have to a fundamentally broken system. The first step is to acknowledge that fact. The second is to fix it.

Posted in crisis, technology | Tagged cryptography, hackers, online security, social engineering

Source: monkeyswithwings.com

This is a reality, and it doesn’t go away if we don’t talk about it.

By tigtog on October 12, 2011

s.e.smith has an important and powerful post up at Tiger Beatdown regarding our collective habit of silence about the hate mail bloggers receive.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged abuse, blogging, cyber-stalking, cyberbullying, cybersafety, hackers, threats | 11 Responses

Quickhit: How to check if your password was exposed in Gawker hack

Quickhit: How to check if your password was exposed in Gawker hack

By tigtog on December 14, 2010

From Computerworld:
Researcher HD Moore spells out how to see what accounts were among 1.3M accessed by hackers

Posted in technology | Tagged hackers | 4 Responses

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