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In the past 6 months, I was turned on to KeePass Password Safe (keepass.info). It’s a password manager that, given a single master password, allows users to store passwords for all their computing needs. It’s so simple it makes using unique strong passwords/passphrases for all different resources a

An important decision by the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Northern District of Florida has ruled that your 5th Amendment rights protecting you from self-incrimination also protect you from providing the encryption password to authorities. Yeah, that just happened. (link) Up to this point,

Russ McRee over at HolisticInfoSec.org wrote a great article talking about Mandiant Highlighter that I and Jason Luttgens wrote. We just released a minor bug fix version, 1.1.3. Here’s the link. holisticinfosec.blogspot.com/2011/10/toolsmith-log-analysis-with-highlighter.html Here’s the link to the

Highlighter v1.1.3 has been released. Check out the sweet blog post by yours truly over at blog.mandiant.com/.

Lately I’ve been doing some work in C# targeting the 3.5 .NET Framework (because that’s where LINQ — Language INtegrated Query — is introduced).  There are two forms for using LINQ: the query expression form and the method-based query form.  Each allows the exact same functionality and each has its

I recently had to get my iPhone restored at an Apple store because I was away from my home computer and my phone was stuck on the loading screen (with the pretty metal apple). I was a little pissed because I knew they were going to upgrade me to the newest firmware (3.1.3) and I [...]

[edit 2010-05-10] I posted this on my facebook account and received a well-deserved lambasting for up-voting the article.  I hadn’t thought hard enough on the problem of domain trusting with such a distributed, flexible, and multi-point service such as email.  Mat Whitney gave me a lesson on the dif

I consider myself relatively browser agnostic but I use Firefox for a lot of my work.  I utilize multiple profiles and use the –no-remote option to actually run these multiple profiles at the same time.  It keeps the cookies, extensions, add-ons and sessions all separate which allows me to work more

Go here: mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/harmony/. Play with Harmony. You’ll get it. It. Is. Dope! HTML5 is the media-rich future of the World Wide Web and this sort of thing is going to become more prevalent very quickly. I’m excited!