Password Reset Mechanisms: The Online Security Threat Nobody’s Talking About
For those who use Ubuntu or Debian and still use apt-get and apt-cache search, you might want to start thinking …
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From Password Reset Mechanisms to OpenID: A Brief Discussion of Online Password Security
I tripped over an article this week on creating “SSH Bookmarks”, which are basically aliases for hostnames within your ~/.ssh/config …
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Extracting Meaning from Emptiness
We’re all well aware of the growing list of high-quality universities offering free online classes. It’s remarkable by any measure. …
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A Wake-up Call for “Moderate Religion” Apologists
I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I …
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Pew: 32% of Americans Believe Humans Evolved Without Supernatural Influence
I have a basic test I put myself through when I think about whether my work and/or my life has …
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Gandhi Hated Black People, and MLK Was a Plagiarist
Sometime around this week marks one year that I’ve been back home in the Bay Area. It’s been the best …
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A Brilliant Piece on Fashion
Anyone who’s tried to learn to enjoy coffee, beer, or wine after not liking their first encounters with them has …
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Federated ID, OpenID, and OAuth: A Web Authentication Primer
So I had one of my posts make the front page of Reddit on Friday. I ended up taking around …
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Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB
So my #1 issue in Table Tennis right now is getting angry, which results in a tightness that precludes the …
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A Philosophical Precipice
(cleaning out some notes I had jotted down. Now I’m putting them here instead) Religion needs to die because people …
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