I'm taking MIT's 6.831: User Interface Design and Implementation through their free OpenCourseWare website. One of the homework assignments is to find two examples each for the "UI Hall of Shame" and the "UI Hall of Fame". This post is for shame -- and since the nominee has ...
I put "privacy" in quotes, because under the scheme below you're still giving up a lot of data, but you can (I think) still maintain "silos" of data so that, for example, your search data isn't correlated with your YouTube or GMail data.
The task: take a bunch of photos from my digital camera and burn them to a DVD that would play the photos as a slideshow in any DVD player. (Actually, the task was to figure out how to do this in the simplest possible way, and make a set of ...
The auth.log on one of my servers (really, on all of the servers I have access to) is full of stuff like this:
Dec 8 03:19:33 localhost sshd[4718]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not allowed [...] Dec 8 03:19:35 localhost sshd[4721]: Invalid ...
There are several companies offering "bug bounties" -- payments to people to find security bugs and report them responsibly.
I will update this page with links to the various bug bounty programs as I become aware of them. If you know of a program that is not linked here (or if ...