For maximum security, passwords should not be cohesive words or phrases and should not be too obviously related to something like your birthday or the birthday of someone close to you. Personal information is one of the first things used when people attempt to break passwords.
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Turn your Wok into a 2.4GHz parabolic dish WiFi repeater
Heres a site with some cool wifi enhancements
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Tallarico talks smack about TechTV and Morgan Webb.
Tommy Tallarico, co-host of G4TechTV's “Judgment Day,” recently came to the defense of his parent channel, saying that the station is “on the way up,” and that its detractors should thank the channel, “for saving any bit of [TechTV] at all.” He also commented on XPlay's Morgan Webb, saying some see her as a “only eye candy.”
First off, I like Tommy Tallarico and the show Judgment Day. I think he's pretty entertaining… like a midget clown or something!
I don't watch that show (or ANY other show on G4) on a regular basis. They're not GEEK enough for me. Their perversion of the Screen Savers ended any hope I had caring about G4. Although, I hear that Call For Help will be coming back on the air.
I do think that a lot of people have taken Tallarico's words out of context (at least the part about Morgan Webb's titty to gamer ratio). He did say that some people were saying that, but maybe it was a tactful way to be tactless.
According to Leo Laporte, G4 is appearently doing quite well. I can't find any stats on how their ratings are now compared to TechTV and the merger.
What I do know is the Screen Savers, my favorite show on cable TV (Pre Battle Star Galactica), was shutdown. I really didn't watch the other TechTV shows as religiously and I wouldn't doubt that Future Fighting Machines had low ratings.
I hope that some other show will be able to wet my GEEK apetite by talking about hacking and mods and other cool shit like that. Until then I'm stuck with waiting for Systm, Broken and Shadows to tease me every three months with a 5 minute speed bump.
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The del.icio.us for programs
“This site allows you to keep a social list of the programs you use. You can easily find new, interesting and popular software in various categories, track after specific categories…”
Quite a useful site. Thing is, that free software has no advertising budget. This free service may be the way to reach it. -
Security Now! Episode 1
I've just posted the first episode of Security Now! with Steve Gibson. This shorty podcast (18 minutes) will be a weekly look at hot topics in security from the creator of ShieldsUP and Spinrite (and TWiT regular). We'll release it by midnight Thursday every week, just in time for your weekend podcasting.
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Hacking tools and tutorials
This is a pretty good collection. Lots of the usual suspects plus a few I hadn't seen before. Worth checking out the link, whether you digg it or not.
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'Ethical hackers' recruited
A NEW generation of “ethical hackers” are to be trained in Wales to test and protect the world's computer security systems.
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Blog Wars Episode I: Sister Furong vs. Xiaxue
Xiaxue (http://xiaxue.blogspot.com) gets OWNED without even having blog getting touched.
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w32 Zotob
Here is more info on the Zotob.
How to remove Zotob?Automated “FixZotob.exe” type tools from Symantec & MicrosoftWhat is the Zotob and what kind of damage can it do?Not much.. unless it connects with the outside IRC.Who created the Zotob?Diabl0 (Turkey)Why was Zotob created? bot wars?http://elamb.blogharbor.com/hacked/zotob.htm
Internet Inventor, Al Gore running in 08?
I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.–Al Gore (http://www.sethf.com/gore/).