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Comment Gawker Passwords are Worthless (Score 1) 209

by simsong on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @03:38PM (#34550638) Attached to: The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords

The fact that passwords like "12345" and "password" are the most comment on websites like Gawker (and rockyou) is simply evidence that:

1. People don't care about their accounts on these systems. It's okay if somebody takes it over.
2. People don't want to use their good passwords on these systems, because they know that these companies have poor security passwords.

Submission + - Face Recognition: Clever or Just Plain Creepy? (technologyreview.com)

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Simson

on Friday February 27, 2009 @09:27PM

Simson writes: "Beth Rosenberg and I published a fun story today about our experiences with the new face recognition that's built into both iPhoto '09 and Google's new Picasa system. The skinny: iPhoto is fun, Google is creepy. The real difference, we think, is that iPhoto runs on your system and has you name people with your "friendly" names. Google, on the other hand, runs on Google's servers and has you identify everybody with their email addresses. Of course, email addresses are unique and can be cross-correlated between different users. And then, even more disturbing, after you've tagged all your friends and family, Google tries to get you to tag all of the strangers in your photos. Ick. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22234/"

Bookmark Face Recognition: Clever or Just Plain Creepy? (technologyreview.com)

by simsong on Friday February 27, 2009 @02:14PM

Comment Check out Sandstorm's NetIntercept (Score 1) 234

by simsong on Monday February 07, 2005 @05:49PM (#11600991) Attached to: Free Open-Source vs. Commercial Security Tools?

Although I'm one of the designers and have a financial interest in the company, I'll still say that if you are interested in network snooping, the most powerful tool out there is Sandstorm's NetIntercept. This is a full-content network interception device that captures all the traffic, decrypts the SSH and SSL connections (if we have the keys or if you are using our modified SSH server), and builds a huge databse of everything that's moved over the wire. It's frightening spook stuff.

Enjoy

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