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 [...]
Apparently weblogs are not for busy people, who don’t have time to write for them more than once a quarter. It would also help if I perhaps didn’t use a weblog engine that required upgrading every month because of new security holes. Bleh.
It may not be a good thing, depending on what you try to hide on your computer. After seeing it reported elsewhere that Spotlight’s “All Images” search on Leopard really does serve up every image on the system, I decided to give it a try myself and see what turned up. Sure enough, every single [...]
