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Safari said to be unsafe

March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So, PayPal has thrown down the gauntlet on the safe browser war.  According to an InfoWorld article, they have declined to add Apple’s Safari browser to their list of safe browsers due to the lack of native anti-phishing technology.
I find it interesting that one of the features they explicitly mention in the InfoWorld article as [...]

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Tags: Privacy · Research · Security

GPG key expired and renewed

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

My GPG key expired today, so I renewed it this morning  (updated the expiration date).  Download it!

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GPG: adding an expiration date

July 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I you have read my previous post, GPG Best Practices, you will know that I am a fan of setting expiration dates on my GPG keys.
This has not always been the case. As with many computer users I tend towards the lazy, and if I can keep from having to re-learn a password by [...]

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Tags: Computers · Cyberspeech · Privacy · Security

GPG Best Practices

July 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Like many people who have some concerns over security on the Internet, I have started to use digital signatures for all of my mail sent from my regular e-mail client on my Mac.
While there are several avenues for this, I chose to use GPG. While I know that this means jumping through a couple [...]

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Tags: Computers · Cyberspeech · Privacy · Security