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petejansson

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About petejansson

Currently doing information security consulting.

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    Same here, except I also wrote assembly and had teammates who wrote RPG

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    The first two paragraphs of the article specifically talk about a study done on Waterloo & City coming to a negative conclusion.

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    Comment #41525140

    Last mile delivery companies don't handle the volume of non-package traffic that the USPS does. At that scale, tailoring can really pay off in productivity.

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    Comment #39239983

    FedNow ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h... ) just went live in July, 2023. It will take some time for adoption.

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    Comment #37730145

    > every time this article pops up I don't think this is the same article of which you're thinking. This is a tool to rotate DKIM keys and publish the old ones (in a sense, a scheme…

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    A few years ago, there were a number of devices that came on the market that essentially blew ozone through the airflow pathways in PAP devices, and this was supposed to be a subst…

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    Turns out Montessori education runs in 3-year cycles (ages 2-3-4, and 5-6-7, for example). Not all schools make that clear, and, if you put a kid in in the middle of a cycle, there…

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    JIRA implementations I've seen don't help people see what's ahead; they focus on what's been done to date. If you're on a single, small team that has minimal dependencies on other …

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    Comment #14234557

    How do you move money among the accounts? I like the idea of using multiple bank accounts as financial firewalls for my money, but it seems difficult or expensive to move the funds…

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    A serious problem with biometrics is credential revocation. The best answer I've seen to this is using the biometric to locally unlock some other credential like a certificate that…

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    It's great that this exists. Many typical users are still befuddled by multifactor authentication, and the one thing that helps is practice. Unfortunately, by having all these isla…

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    Comment #11599614

    While not a direct successor, there's this: https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography_engineering/

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    While I agree with your premise about different types of work, and while I agree there's some level of clerical work required to interact with a computer, computers can do far more…

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    Comment #11268721

    It's about time it got an update. https://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/

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    The article seems to say that the estimate of all who have lived is about 106 billion, so the number of currently-alive is estimated at about 6% of those who have ever lived. Arthu…

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    Comment #10797878

    One approach is to issue one certificate per device per subject. The subject identifier could remain the same. If this approach is taken, revocation checking is critical -- you end…

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    Comment #10664661

    Purely from a user's perspective, the Mac app store has a considerable advantage in centrally managing updates. Non-MAS apps each have their own eclectic ways of updating. Some sup…

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    I had years of mechanical drawing in high school, and it wasn't until my junior year that the teacher noticed I am left-handed. He started having me create drawings from the lower-…