Obtaining passwords just seems to be too easy. And the more I work in the industry the more I realize that people just don’t take security seriously. So how paranoid should you be? How serious should you take passwords? In a word: VERY.
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008Making the BNT-600 UPS work with NUT
Monday, August 4th, 2008I’ve had my blacknight 600VA UPS for a while now, and was well aware of the fact that NUT makes use of the powercom driver to interface with it. I also knew that it was supposed to be able to do things like auto-shutdown and restore power on resume (unlike some of the considerably smarter UPSes it won’t wait until battery restored to a certain point). Well, I finally made it work the way I want it…
VoIP – So how (in)secure is it really?
Friday, August 1st, 2008It’s bad. No, it’s worse than that.
It’s generally accepted that email is “available for the world to see” in security circles, essentially it’s transmitted in plain-text over the internet. Plain-text in this case has nothing to do with HTML vs ASCII text, but instead refers to the fact that your email isn’t being encrypted before being transmitted. VoIP is exactly the same.
