Cutting ties with Google Ads
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
Category Archives: Computer Security
Yet another night debugging email delivery problems
I’ve run my own mail server for 30+ years. It’s a pain sometimes, but I’m a stubborn old cuss and I think it’s worth it both because I value my privacy and don’t want my emails being stored on somebody else’s servers, and because I’m a sysadmin at heart and I love a good sysadmin… Read More »
Case study: anonymizing email addresses for online accounts
Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.
UX failure of the day: Eastern Bank’s new personal banking portal
Whatever Eastern Bank’s priorities were in rolling out its new portal, good UX and security seemingly weren’t among them.
MyFitnessPal is not telling the whole truth about recent data “corruption” incident
I’m fairly certain I did not eat “Enjoy Cock Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce” last week. So why does the MyFitnessPal app say I did?
Why is PayPal still so incredibly awful?
Even if you jump through all of PayPal’s hoops and give them all the information they ask for when creating an account, they may still decide to arbitrarily lock you out of your account and never restore your access.
You should be backing up your password manager
It’s a bad idea to entirely rely on the company hosting your password manager to back up your data.
How a bad password policy at Bank of America reduces security
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you’re actually forcing them to use bad passwords.
LastPass still hasn’t learned the first rule of being in a hole
LastPass sent out an email and published a blog posting today to go with the support article they published earlier this week. They keep making things worse.
Newly released details about the recent LastPass security incident are bad
The newly released details about last fall’s LastPass breach and their response to it are bad, and LastPass should feel bad, and you should stop using LastPass.