Ececheira - Slashdot User

Comment: Go for length over complexity (Score 3, Informative) 615

by Ececheira on Sunday June 05 2011, @06:14PM (#36345338) Attached to: Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless

This article spells it out:
http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability

Too bad most sites are too stupid to allow a long enough password. I'll take a 16-character pass-phrase with all lower case + whitespace over a hard to remember 8 character one anyday.

Comment: Bing admitted a bug - will be fixed (Score 1) 214

by Ececheira on Saturday November 21 2009, @05:07PM (#30187826) Attached to: Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries

Bing just repsonded to the issue here:

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/11/21/committed-to-comprehensive-results.aspx

They've found a bug in their image search algorithms and promise a fix by the end of the week.

Comment: Bitlocker To Go (Score 1) 500

by Ececheira on Wednesday August 12 2009, @11:22AM (#29038821) Attached to: Encryption? What Encryption?

How about using Bitlocker To go to encrypt your USB devices? It's installed/available on all Win7 SKU's (though you need Enterprise/Ultimate to initally encrypt the device). As it's part of the OS, there's no suspision for having it...

Congress to ban VOIP on airplanes 0

Submitted by Ececheira on Monday June 22 2009, @06:55PM

Ececheira writes "The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee has taken Representative Peter A. DeFazio's (OR) bill from the last Congress (HR.5788) and inserted it as a section into the FAA Re-authorization Act of 2009 (HR.915) in this Congress, that if enacted into law, would permanently ban all inflight voice communication services and prevent passengers from using their own mobile devices to send and receive calls. The proposed provision (Section 423) would permanently ban aircraft passenger voice communications service using a mobile or wireless device and would deny passengers the convenience and choice of connectivity that consumers in other countries enjoy today."

Comment: Doesn't seem to block out unknown ISP's (Score 1) 355

by Ececheira on Friday February 06 2009, @04:49PM (#26757403) Attached to: ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay

I checked their list of "supported" ISP's and the one I use isn't on it. I use an ADSL2+ connection with a custom reverse dns. There's no way for them to tell my ISP by host name; they'd need to lookup the netblock instead. However they're blocking access, it doesn't seem to be foolproof.