I suppose this should be filed under “Get More Pageviews”, but nonetheless, I took the click-bait to Sophos’ calling Apple out on making the iPhone 4S safer to use while driving easy to access by bypassing your passcode. My main issue is that they take what is a legitimate concern regarding the tradeoffs between security [...]
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Just a reminder, when you’re migrating a lot of data and configuration information to a new machine, remember to make sure you pull all the relevant information. I just spent the better part of my afternoon/evening chasing down a problem where a user could not log on via SSH. He had the right key. He [...]
I was recently asked for my opinion on options for adding access control, or, more specifically, host-level authorization for users connecting to Linux systems. All the systems in question are a variety of CentOS, and all of them are configured to use LDAP for authentication and authorization via the pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules. The Problem [...]
… Or at least add him to my daily reading. My last source of confusion (on this matter, at least) is that people are going after Apple on this at all. Until the iPhone there was never an expectation that phones should either run Flash or be open. A phone is not a personal computer. [...]
If you’re anything like me, you have a strong dislike for all the stupidity that surrounds the Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader.) I won’t go into the details here (though this guy can explain it in great detail), but because I very occasionally need features of Adobe Reader, I still keep it installed [...]
