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Being part of design meetings, it's amazing how many endless customizations and workflow adjustments people like project managers and consultants like to request for a new piece of…

Obvious question I know.. but why were the SSNs of sailors on some HP contractor's laptop?

I think there's multiple things there and I don't think taking any particular stance is wrong. I love technology, in the sense that if I get a problem to solve which makes me dig d…

Pretty much every router is sold with UPnP turned on. Many IOT devices use UPnP to open their interface to the world.

I don't consider myself a programmer, just someone working in IT that writes a lot of code, and to this day when I want to write any type of web page or web based "app" PHP is my g…

In the short term, there's always a lot more risks in scraping an old system and spinning up a new one, especially in large complex organizations. However, in the long term you're …

Private key stored in a passworded file on an encrypted disk, plus a key fob as second factor. Pretty hard to get better security.

It's a bit of a catch 22, if you lose your iPhone then you need some way to locate it / erase it without having your iPhone. I don't think it's a big deal, you should have backups …

I'm not sure I get the point of this article. Travel nomads are a real thing, and more and more numerous. They typically don't have a lot of money and often work at local menial jo…

I made https://dendory.net/coding a while back as a cheatsheet of syntax between languages.

Guess it's luck that I started using Python when they released 3, and went straight for that!

A long time ago I started to use the iPhone music app. Then I quickly discovered that songs sent to the iPhone could not be sent back the other way. This was just the beginning of …

It's all fine and good to point out how insecure SMS is, and various ways that 2-factor auth may have been improved, but I think the bottom line is that when your adversary is the …

It's interesting to see how Google, a company that has arguably some of the best engineers in the world and the most brilliant technologists, still only makes a decent revenue on o…

In Quebec a lot of our modern taboo words are religious themed. Unlike many other cultures however, it's not religion that made them taboo, but rather the fact that we had a heavie…

I think the security aspect is the best option. If a CEO can't access some proprietary web app and is told "You need to use browser X that supports DRM", then they will be "Why isn…

Too bad that content outside the US is a fraction of what's available in the US.

I remember using AVG many years ago when it was a decent product. I recently had the displeasure to have to install it again. AVG Free right now is malware, plain and simple. It hi…

I really cringe when dealing with spaces, which is a real problem since I code in Python a lot, which cannot deal with a mix of both. I don't understand people using 2 or 4 spaces …

You'd be surprised. While the -official- code will typically always get QA'd and reviewed, there are plenty of cases where custom code for a specific use case is done by one engine…

I wonder if non-TLS based VPNs could be used around that? And if those are blocked, how hard would it be to build a SSL over HTTP proxy outside the country?

Ironically, just this week I had several cases of attempting to install Python modules with pip, and every error that came up had to do with compiling parts. Then I used apt-get to…

Password rules are needed, otherwise passwords would be even worse than they are now, with people going back to using '1' or '1234'. They just need to be better designed: Must have…

HP is everywhere in the enterprise, from servers to desktops and every peripheral in between. I doubt they are going away any time soon. But as tech evolves, it does seem like the …