CharlesMerriam2
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
No one ever answers how often security breaks are from: passwords being guessed, brute forced, or shared; client side compromise from malware, keyloggers, and first-hop IP session takeover; or server side compromise from poor custom code and poor infrastructure choices. Anecdotally, the chart leans to the server side security breaches.
In the absence of knowledge, we get two security talks repeated over and over. This is the first: do a better job with passwords. The second is "You are irrovacably insecure because of [some issue], but update your passwords regularly."
Security has not developed a reputation for being a craft or science.
Also, the book "Ministry For The Future" is an SF take pulling together ideas people have on climate change. The actual prose may make you throw the book at the wall.
You can, if you wish, push information forward. For example, having free interfaces to solar panels, cheap sun following controls, software to control car charging for cheap times, software to use a car as a 'peak load' battery, data modelling to show Hawaii why tourism is better with only electrics, software to create micro cargo ships with solar power, cleaning up the automated kite power generators that were open sourced, and the like.
You have more power than you expect.
In practice, I spend under two minutes to click around and see if can 'get' it. What does it do especially well? What's the syntax look like? If you are brave, what doesn't work well?
No idea why this exists or why I would use it. Bad website. No cookie.
Someone more passionate about open source usage could put up a brag site where products using open source and profiles of the authors of the open source are tracked. It would be of some benefit to the authors.
No. Mine.
This is flirting. Show me why I should be interested before I bare my soul.
1. Make a single button for common sentences, e.g., "8 characters with one or more digits and one or more punctuation."
2. Grab your vocabulary from a selected corpus, e.g., StarWars, Shakespeare, Victorian Romance, Software Buzzwords.