John Bradshaw
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
-Benjamin Franklin
I was just browsing the interwebs, as I am want to do, and I came across a few interesting articles about consumer safety online. I thought I’d summarise the advice:
Do NOT click on things you don’t understand
Do NOT install things unless you’re really sure
Update your computer daily*
Update [...]
What do you want?
Information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling. We want information. Information. Information.
You won’t get it!
-The Prisoner
Look at your estate, now back to me, look at all the documents you have, now back to me. I bet they’re scattered everywhere?? I bet you’ve got weird drafts of documents from projects you stopped running [...]
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
-Steve Wozniak
Voicemail hacking is a problem, one that is now widely popularised in the media, and I’m not going to discuss the political ramifications but it does present an interesting security question. The issue is that voicemail systems haven’t fundamentally changed in [...]
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll
Passwords are always a thorny topic in IT departments, and everyone (including their Aunty) has an opinion. I’ve seen loads of different policies, rules of thumb and fudges trying to get users to keep your [...]
Minimalism wasn’t a real idea – it ended before it started.
Sol LeWitt
It took me a while to realise: Less is more. Now I don’t just mean that in terms of the site design here on my blog but also in general and particularly when you talk about technology.
Why is this important? Because Complex Systems Theory is hard. [...]
Now normally this kind of “Hello World!” message would be a fairly basic, and ultimately pointless, entry just letting you know that your website was up and running. (And I have no wish to disappoint, so this post will be pretty pointless )
I’ve spent a few years working in IT as both an architect [...]
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