Jez has kindly offered his organisation services to put together a London Java Meetup when I’m there the week after next (Wednesday 8th of December). If you’re in London, do Java and you like meeting up - why not come along?
This post was written by Mike, source: London Java Meetup
Alef has drunk the Kool-aid and I think he enjoys the taste.
Isn’t it about time you gave up on all the other crap out there and tried SiteMesh too?
(PS Sorry - long time since the last post - I’ve been a busy boy - I’m about to haul ass through London, Belgium for Javapolis and end in NY - if you want to catch up, drop me a line)
This post was written by Mike, source: Shameless SiteMesh Plug
Apparently passwords are dead:
Bill Gates has just proclaimed the end of passwords. There’s only
one drawback - you have to use .Net (well, what else would you
expect?). However, the smart card that is at the centre of it - made
by Axalto - is still a great bit of technology.
Alas that the Techworld site referenced is slashdotted.
Nonetheless, all this is merely to recycle a age-old, self-evident
truth that myself and others have been preaching for literally decades:
From: alecm@…… (Alec Muffett)
Newsgroups: comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: passwd-changing from 56-bit DES// Bruce!
Date: 11 Jul 1994 10:54:56 GMT
[…]
Buy a smartcard or install S/Key. Get out of the password game. Now.
Passwords are dead technology. The NSA probably doesn’t give a toss
what is on your machine, but if you’re at all interested in keeping
*them* out, then give up on passwords entirely.
source: Gates declares passwords to be dead; as ever MS is 10 years late.
I spent fifteen hours on Election Day in a conference room in a Manhattan law firm, surrounded by dozens of attorneys, fielding questions from what felt like all of them. It wasn’t the callback interview from hell, though: I’d volunteered to help work the Election Protection Coalition’s 866-OUR-VOTE callin hotline.
The hotline has existed for some years, but after 2000, it became much more well-publicized and well-funded. Its goal is to allow poll watchers, voters, and election workers to call in with questions, comments, and especially their observations of anything that looks like irregularities in the electoral process. The line connects callers to banks of volunteer attorneys and law students at call centers all over the country. Even though there was a call center in San Francisco, I’d been tapped to fill a last-minute hole in a phone bank responsible for handling calls from Pennsylvania.
(much more below the fold…)
source: How I spent my Election Day
Oh my…
Through the nature of my hobby/research I tend to
a lot of these things
but this one is quite egregious, and my first blog-based one:
I don’t know if you could help me or not and I’m very sorry if I
bother you by asking you to do this favor for me… Could you please
find the password to a livejournal account for me?
The account is: brokenladder804
Please email me at TommyMcTomTom2@aol.com with any information or
suggestions. You have no idea how grateful I would be if you did
happen to find it for me.
Once again, I am very sorry if this comment bothers you!
Thanks!
The resultant Google cache-searches for tommymctomtom2,
brokenladder804, and another keyword that I believe
associates with this person: therapudicsmile - these search
results seem to imply a concerted and ongoing attempt to obtain
certain third-parties’ passwords.
Certainly http://www.livejournal.com/users/brokenladder804/ exists,
and looking at “friends” cited by
[www.livejournal.com] it seems
that these people (a) are young, and (b) live in the Florida area.
Ah! He really was posting from AOL.
As John Kerry might say, quelle surprise.
source: “Could you please find the password to a livejournal account?”