Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Mac User's BEWARE:
This one is probably one of the nastiest bugs I've seen in a while:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/16/quickbooks-users-be-cautious-of-recent-update/
I know someone personally who was bitten by this one. Upgrading Quickbooks will actually delete your entire Desktop folder and all of it's contents. There are a couple of suggested work-arounds ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
My co-worker (Sam) and I lead a session at IIW called "OpenID Security and Privacy" and as the conversation evolved it occurred to me that even though these issues exist in OpenID today, the real hurdles are going to be trust and liability.
There are many companies and ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I'm not typically a big fan of hardware tokens, but I discovered a neat little device at IIW that takes the cake when it comes to hardware based authentication. The YubiCard is a incredibly small device; requires no drivers at all and doesn't need a LCD screen. ...
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