Monday, March 31, 2008

You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks

David Jevans, CEO of IronKey was on Security Now 135 and stunned me with this quote:

"You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks".

Now that's some serious speed (and some serious money), but nothing I don't expect several governments to have to hand.

Keep those passwords strong and long...

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com

Caught this little blessing on Veronica's Twitter feed: Quotably.com gives you an easy way to follow Twitter conversations.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Security lapse exposes Facebook photos

As I've said before, if you don't want something made public, don't put it online. The latest Facebook security lapse reinforces this.

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

New video of BDI's Big Dog robot

Now this is amazing: "Boston Dynamics has just released a brand new video of their DARPA-funded Big Dog robot".



Isn't this how films like Terminator start?

(Thanks, Si, for the link!)

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop

"If you travel across national borders, it's time to customs-proof your laptop."

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Google Search Privacy

Videos by Google on Search Privacy.

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