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Miller, if you don't know, is easily the most famous and successful security researcher for the Mac and iOS platforms. Miller has won many awards for his research and found many important vulnerabilities in Apple's software. Miller doesn't work for Apple; he is principal research consultant for Accuvant LABS, the research arm of security consulting firm Accuvant .
Apple Bans Researcher For Disclosing iOS Bug
"It has become clear in the last 10 years or so that independent research is critical to keeping products secure. Modern software products are just too complicated for vendors to do all the research themselves." by Nov 11
Think sandboxing will stop malware? Here's why you're wrong, Apple | Technology | guardian.co.uk
At the end of last week, Apple noted that it was moving towards requiring sandboxing for all apps distributed on the Mac App Store . (Sandboxing? We'll explain.) With Windows 8, Metro apps also requiring sandboxing , it looks like industry players seem to think this will in some way control the malware menace.
"Microsoft, the most experienced company at knowing how to defend against malware exploit vectors, does a good job but is nowhere near a "zero vector" point. If Microsoft can't do it, there is absolutely no way that Apple or Google can - they simply do not have the experience, no matter how vocal their fan base."
"Malware is a criminal problem and a technical solution won't cut it. This is logical if you consider putting better locks on your house - it doesn't stop society creating people who want to burgle you, it just pushes the problem down to the next guy with less good locks." by Nov 11
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In Are AES -256 keys too Large? I discussed that 256-bit keys will fall short of their implied security when derived from passwords or embedded in protocols with other cryptography. To achieve the equivalent of 256-bit security users would need to select 40 character passwords at random , and protocols would need to employ RSA keys with at least 13,000 bits. At times 256-bit keys are just too big for their own good. Nonetheless AES -256 is being widely deployed since it conveniently lies at the intersection of good marketing and pragmatic security. In upgrading from AES -128 to AES -256 vendors can legitimately claim that their products use maximum strength cryptography, and key lengths can be doubled (thus squaring the effort for brute force attacks) for a modest 40% performance hit.
The spin on passwords for AES
This page displays your User Agent String and Screen Resolution. This is a very basic output of the User Agent also referred to as simply UA. Your User Agent tells every site your visit what browser you're using. Sites are able to detect your UA and redirect to a more fitting page for your browser if desired. In other words, if you go to a site with this detection in place from a mobile phone the site might detect you are a mobile user via the UA and redirect you to their mobile site if available. This doesn't work on all sites becuase not all sites have UA detection in place.
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Why Does My Text Look Funny? Character Set Encoding Detection and Conversion | Messaging News
Character set encoding Character encoding is the low-level representation of the letters, numbers, and symbols we see in our daily interactions with computers. Common encodings for documents in English are ISO-8859-1 (a superset of ASCII), UTF-8 (an 8 bit Unicode character encoding), and Windows-1252. There are a great number of character set encodings in use and a long and complicated history of how they came to be.
Step 2) Look at the cartridge. This cartridge has two chambers. The Lower chamber is filled with a sponge. The Upper chamber is an empty ink reservoir. Step 3) Put enough ink in the Lower chamber to saturate the sponge by injecting some ink through the ink exit hole on the bottom of the cartridge. Be sure that you do not push the sponge into the cartridge, or it will not make proper contact with the printhead when installed in the printer.
How to Refill Canon BC-30, BC-31, BCI-3, BCI-3e, BCI-5, BCI-6, CLI-8 Inkjet Cartridges
Learn how to make a capacitive stylus pen for your touch screen devices like the iPhone, iPad, or any other mobile phone. All you need is a ordinary pen to convert into a stylus. Cell phones like Google’s Nexus One, iPhone, Nokia N8, HTC Droid, BlackBerry Storm and tablets like the iPad have a capacitive touch screen. That means the screen will only respond to touch commands from human fingers and not the stylus pen that may have come with your old PDA. There’s a small problem though. Your fingers are great for navigation or for typing on the capacitive touch screen but when it comes to handwriting recognition or painting, you are likely to find a stylus pen as a more natural and accurate medium for input than the fat finger tips.
Turn any Pen into a Capacitive Stylus for your iPhone and iPad
Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. - Digital Inspiration
Try some of the best and most useful bookmarklets for Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, IE, Opera and other web browsers. These bookmarklets help you do stuff without installing any add-ons. This guide will help you understand the advantages of bookmarklets over add-ons, how to install bookmarklets followed by a list of essential bookmarklets that should work across all popular browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari. Why Use Bookmarklet over Add-ons
A short history of btrfs [LWN.net]
You probably have heard of the cool new kid on the file system block, btrfs (pronounced "butter-eff-ess") - after all, Linus Torvalds is using it as his root file system on one of his laptops. But you might not know much about it beyond a few high-level keywords - copy-on-write, checksums, writable snapshots - and a few sensational rumors and stories - the Phoronix benchmarks , btrfs is a ZFS ripoff, btrfs is a secret plan for Oracle domination of Linux, etc. When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander: the code is so complex, the personalities are so exaggerated, and the users are so angry when they lose their data. You can't even settle things with a battle of the benchmarks: file system workloads vary so wildly that you can make a plausible argument for why any benchmark is either totally irrelevant or crucially important.Unbiased global news The Wall provides a real-time view of what's important by monitoring, analyzing and publishing the most discussed topics on social networks as they occur.
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There are many articles written about the reasons why users may wish to convert to Linux. Frequently cited reasons include the favorable licensing terms, the freely distributable software (with source code), support from the Linux community, improved security, open file formats, the fact that Linux can run on a wide variety of platforms, etc. However, unless a desktop user is provided with real alternatives to the existing software he or she currently uses, migration to a different operating system is going to be very difficult.