TheorizationAlongObliqueSpeculation

With the latest phishing scam going around, in South Africa at least, I have written up this post to get my opinion on keeping yourself safe from the scammer. The title of the phishing mail that prompted this is “CNN.com Daily Top 10” from “Daily Top 10”. It caught me at first until I relised [...]

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Okay, I stand corrected. Doing the benchmarks in a VM was a bad idea, but TwoFish encryption does impact disk use to an extent.

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A visual representation of what sizes used to be (20 years ago) compared to what they are today.
I really wish some days that I could get a 32ounce cuppa Jo here in “Sunny” South Africa
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I noticed something rather important missing in the realm of Full Disk Encryption, and that was benchmark data. The methodology I followed may be a bit unorthodox but would provide me with a consistant platform to test with.
I installed Windows XP SP2 on VMWare Fusion and applied all the patches available from our WSUS server. [...]

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I really enjoy using the Flock browser, but for one HUGE annoyance. Why oh Why did they have to use Yahoo as the default search engine and then making it stupid to change. You would assume that changing the default under Search preferences that it would change it when using the URL bar to search, [...]

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Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
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Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft’s BitLocker and Apple’s FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files.
In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that [...]

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Found this out a while ago, just never posted. Hackers with a sense of humour
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Sorry….but the page you are looking for cannot be found This could happen for several reasons:
1. The page may have been reached in error.
2. The page may have moved.
3. The [...]

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This week has been good. First I got myself a DS Lite, although typically had to find a charger for it as the supplied one was 110v *sigh*. All is good there but need to learn how to play that style of game as I have always been a PC gamer.
Typing this on my second [...]

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This is not a review… sorta
I finished the game after 23 or so hours playing on Delta, although I did change to easy twice due to frustration in the alien levels.
As far as prettiness goes BEAUTIFUL even on my lowly PC. I got fairly consistent frame-rates on medium (PC-SPEC) and avg of 23 [...]

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MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation - Via Techmeme & ars technica
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal file-sharing on school networks. The toolkit is based on the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and includes the [...]

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