Does anyone else find it ironic that they're using information obtained from a cracked server to determine that the weakest security is the password? Anyway, I think the passwords are only weak because the users get to choose them, and *users* are the weakest link in the security chain.

If it's true about the OpenBSD vulnerability, and that Theo was unaware, then given their method (and apparent motivation), I don't see why it's unfeasible that they wouldn't have done it in multiple software stacks.

If the allegations against the FBI are true, and they had contractors successfully hide a weakness in a hugely successful open source project like OpenBSD, can't you at least conceive that it would be possible for them to have insiders at Microsoft that have done something similar? Microsoft wouldn't have to be aware, as Theo apparently wasn't.

There have been some interesting efforts toward this, like the road train autopilot system.

except I explain modern technology to Benjamin Franklin. It's a fun way to look at the modern world (and you learn to question your assumptions. Even tried to explain TV to an 18th century scientist?)

there are people who aren't using hootsuite?

Ticket closed. Resolution: Beer Acquired.

You're right...that's pretty much what I've been doing now for quite a while. The idea of a world in which those technical books don't exist does frighten me a little, though.

That is an interesting idea.

I am worried, though, about the quality of online-only docs. I mean, I'm one of those sick people who actually /likes/ to write documentation, and even I don't like documenting the boring stuff...but if you get a good book, that's exactly what you'll get. The boring stuff is documented in as much detail as the exciting stuff, and sometimes it's the boring stuff that's going to save you in a corner case.

I might be wrong, and I hope I am.