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Quick Notes
In my continuing quest to make better use of the Org mode agenda facility, I’ve implemented a way of capturing quick notes that are meant to be ephemeral and not saved long term. It’s a good way to capture information … Continue reading
A New Stock Photo for a Hacker
Christopher Soghoian has an excellent suggestion New rule: Instead of a stock photo of masked-man at a keyboard to show hackers, use the NSA director. More accurate. pic.twitter.com/DjziAmzptq — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) February 23, 2015 If that picture isn’t scary … Continue reading
Capturing Blog Ideas
I’ve been refactoring my workflow lately, trying to make better use of Org-mode, especially Org agenda. I’m always on the lookout for promising blog subjects and usually find them when reading my RSS feeds. My normal process was to bookmark … Continue reading
Handling Windows
A while ago I wrote about abo-abo’s application of Hydra to switching windows. It was an idea apparently inspired by Sacha Chua’s use of his def-rep-command to switch windows but went further to handle many chores involving windows and buffers. … Continue reading
A LaTeX Tip
Here’s something from John Cook that I didn’t know: Use \phantom{} to insert white space the size of the argument. For example, \phantom{\pi} is an invisible \pi. — TeX tips (@TeXtip) February 23, 2015
And So It Begins
The lawyers will be happy.
Everybody Wants Ta Get Inta Da Act
Apologies to Jimmy Durante but everyone, it seems, is waging man-in-the-middle attacks. The latest perpetrator is the provider of in-flight WiFi, Gogo. Google security engineer Adrienne Porter Felt, while on a flight, discovered that Gogo was serving up fake SSL … Continue reading
Lenovo Denies Security Problems
It’s infuriating that Lenovo continues to deny that SuperFish is a security threat. They keep saying that they’ve stopped installing it but that in any case SuperFish didn’t collect or store any private information. Doubtless that’s true but it’s a … Continue reading
MITM Coming to a Job Near You
Just in case you think that man-in-the-middle attacks are just for the victims of Lenovo’s shenanigans, there’s this .@mountain_ghosts Such as this lovely device, which goes by the Orwellian name of an "SSL Visibility Appliance": https://t.co/TEmLfOTZnt — Nick Stenning (@nickstenning) … Continue reading
Lenovo
You’ve almost certainly heard about the astoundingly stupid actions on the part of Lenovo. Forget about the security implications for a minute. What this boils down to is that Lenovo sold out their customers for a few pieces of silver … Continue reading