One of the first tips in The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is about broken windows. The theory is that if you leave a broken window in a house, you’re less inclined to fix anything else and eventually the house is abandoned or otherwise abused. This of course relates originally to software development – [...]
A few days ago I wrote about some of the software I use for personal password management. Today I’d like to write about a movement that could very well replace the need for all those passwords. I’m talking about identity federation using OpenID. Identity federation simply means that a user can log into one site, [...]
As a web technology person, I sign up for a lot of online accounts. Everything from personal photo sites to online banking, security wikis to open source projects. Recently I decided my password security was not the best because I only had about 8 standard passwords I would use across all my website accounts. I [...]
I was watching my daughter today and decided to use my laptop in the kitchen to keep a better eye on her. I thought I would just enable Remote Desktop Access on my new desktop running Vista Home Premium and remote in. That’s when the shock began. The only thing available in Vista Basic is [...]
