Random musings
If you work in the computer security area, it is like drinking from the fire hose, what with the daily revelations about snooping and spying by the NSA. So much to talk, write and discuss. Comedians (and their writers) get excited when interesting politicians become newsmakers, as it makes their jobs much easier and more … Read more
If you are not using lastpass to manage your passwords, you should. I had written some blog articles on lastpass. Now lastpass has added support for using Google Authenticator as the second factor in multi-factor authentication. The first factor in the 2-factor authentication is "what you know" which is a password — the master password … Read more
About a year ago, I had sung praises of lastpass in my blog article. Yesterday, lastpass said that based on some traffic anomalies, they suspect that part of the encrypted database may have been retrieved by the bad guys. You may know about this as lastpass is asking every user to a) validate their email … Read more
The number of passwords one needs to remember just keeps going up. My initial
solution of storing them in an encrypted file was obviously not very convenient. I used [keypass](http://keepass.info/) for a while. But I wanted a solution that can be used from any browser. I found [lastpass](https://lastpass.com/) and it is just the perfect solution.
name.com is a registrar that provides private whois service. On their web site they say: Name.com offers Private Whois Service to protect your online identity. With Private Whois, you can hide your contact information from the public but still receive emails to your personal email address. But when you go to name.com and click on … Read more
Google should fix their broken account creation process Frequently I get emails from Google in my gmail account congratulating me for creating a brand new Gmail account. The problem is that I never created those accounts. The email also says “Please keep this email for your records, as it contains an important verification code that … Read more