Re: [FRIAM] FUCK PASSWORDS - Blog - December 2011 - veekun: fuzzy notepad
I feel naive but have to ask: How exactly do stolen passwords help someone steal my credit card etc.? I ask because I'm assuming they do so by breaking into a website (Gawker was mentioned) and get the password file. That file has a hash of my password, and a very few other things like my login name. This is the only way they can crank on my hash to find words that translate into the hash .. assuming they know how the site uses it (salt etc). OK, they have my password. Now what? They won't have my credit card number, that is stored elsewhere, and on amazon etc it is reasonably well protected. And even I don't see the credit card number .. only the last few digits. Ditto for my email address, also often used as a login name, it's not part of the password file, right? So how would they get my email address? I suppose they can search for my login name and hope to correlate it with an email address. Which brings me to the real threat Steve mentioned a while back: if someone can hack into your mail account, they can simply go to amazon and click I forgot my password .. and have it mailed to the compromised email account which the wily hacker is monitoring and deletes as soon as the pw is available. So shouldn't one's email account be the best secured? Best password? So I don't really understand how the theft of a password file automatically turns into stealing your identity, credit cards and all. How's it done? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] passive security
On 12/5/11 12:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I got a call from Citibank, today. The Russians have my creditcard number and are trying to buy computers at Dell. Second time I have had to change my credit card number in 4 mos. Two factor security: Something you have and something you know. But rather than something you know, replace with the normal activities of you.. These are enormous companies. They have the resources to do the modeling and also to absorb the cost of some fraud. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] linux? and also how to backup bookmarks?
RE bookmarking: I really like diigo.com for social bookmarking and Xmarks (a Firefox add-on) for regular bookmarks. Both sync nicely with multiple devices and your stuff is always saved in the cloud. Or should it be The Cloud? -tj On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Not sure about converting to Linux, but for bookmarks there are two ideas: 1 - First of all, simply look for an export bookmarks feature in the browser. There are standard ways to export, the most common being an html format, that has the additional advantage of being a web page of all your bookmarks. Just to make sure this all works, try importing these into another browser. I've found safari, chrome, firefox all do a great job of doing this interoperably. If your current browser supports multiple export formats, use them all, just in case. 2 - Secondly, after exporting the bookmarks, import them into a web-based bookmark site so that from now on you can get to the bookmarks via that site. Delicious was popular, but is declining I think. Pinboard is what I use. There are others, often called social bookmarking because you can share the bookmarks with your friends. And they all have browser plugins/extensions/bookmarklets that let you access the bookmarks easily. Like Dropbox, I really love using Pinboard and don't know how I got along without it! One idea on Linux might be to use a virtual machine (VirtualBox seems popular) so that you can run both Windows and Linux on the same system. This way, if you find you need an app only available on Windows, you can use it. I don't know how easy it is to share files between the two, but I'd be surprised if it were a problem. Maybe Dropbox would help make it easier. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote: Oh Windows 7 how I kinda sorta love you. (other than the 5-7 unique malwares it gave me) so like the subject says considering linux but before I drink the koolaid need to back up my bookmarks. and despite almost a year with html I don't have the fogiest clue what a good way to do that is. On a side note so far top linux winers are:PCLOS.Ubuntu/Kubunto or OpenSUSE. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USAhttp://www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com == FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] FYI: Data Science Central
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[FRIAM] sensordomo?
We're looking at various ways to instrument our taiko dojo and are considering ambient solutions. Is there a sensordomo-like thing for iOS devices? Thanks, Carl FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
