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TrueCrypt shutdown? Where’s my tinfoil hat!

May 29, 2014 by Harvey Ramos
XKCD: Security

This is bad. Very bad. And strange. And very, very, bad. Wait, whut? TrueCrypt has apparently shutdown, called itself insecure, and advised everyone to switch to BitLocker. You should read the comments on those articles folks, people waaaaay smarter than me are talking.

Filed Under: Commentary, Quick Hits, Science & Technology Tagged With: security, truecrypt

Have you been pwned?

January 27, 2014 by Harvey Ramos

You’ve certainly heard about the many companies that have been hacked and your passwords, emails, and sometimes other data get leaked onto the internet. It’s not a great thing for the company, but it’s REALLY bad for you, the consumer. If you use that same email or password on multiple sites (which many people do) … Continued

Filed Under: Coding, Commentary, Quick Hits, Science & Technology Tagged With: breach, pwned, security

Just how secure is Apple’s TouchID fingerprint scanner?

September 23, 2013 by Harvey Ramos
Fingerprint Hardware Breakout

Apparently… it’s just as (un)secure as any other fingerprint scanner.
It took less than 48 hours for someone to figure out that Apple’s supposedly super secure fingerprinting method is no more or less secure than any other fingerprinting method

Filed Under: Quick Hits, Science & Technology Tagged With: apple, fingerprint, security, touchid

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