This image from Pinterest seemed familiar to me. In technology we have similar sayings. Terms such as PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair), Identity Error or ID-10T/1D-10T error (idiot error), PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer), IBM error (Idiot Behind Machine error) and other similar phrases are used as slang in technical circles with derogatory meaning.
I was trying to do some research on encryption and discovered that due to “lack of funding,” government websites are down. This is crazy. Costs the same to run this page as it does to leave the whole site up! Trump shuts down the government – solution – spank the taxpayers!https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf
From Pinterest – our favorite thing – passwords
Check out the top 25 most used and least secure passwords of 2018 and whether yours made the cut.
1. 123456 (Rank unchanged from last year)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 123456789 (Up 3)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
5. 12345 (Unchanged)
6. 111111 (New)
7. 1234567 (Up 1)
8. sunshine (New)
9. qwerty (Down ...
I couldn’t resist this Pinterest pic, what with my 3 part investigation on Russian cyber-espionage beginning tomorrow.
This post is funny only from the standpoint of “it’s funny how things turn out” or “its funny how big things start in small places.” More of a history lesson – but please bear with me and read on.
From the Stanford University website:
“On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute ...
Continue Reading →I have several friends who are genealogists, but it was one of my cybersec pals, Mike Janes, that sent this to me. Back when I was a teen-ager at summer camp, there was a skit the counselors put on about the “Dover Family” – father Ben Dover, spouse Eileen Dover, the dog Roll Dover. (by the way, if you remember this skit and can contribute more names, please do, I can’t find it on Google. What? Impossible)
Here’s some new material ...
Continue Reading →What is the biggest plant in the world? The fungus that ate the UP? This is the second largest organism in the world, right behind another gigantic fungus in Oregon that covers 3 square miles. But wait, there’s a quaking aspen grove in Utah that is one large genetic clone organism weighing 13 million pounds and sharing a single root system. An interesting pair of articles from the Smithsonian. Fungus vs Continue Reading →
Another campaign season behind us and what did we get? What we deserved, I guess.
Dancing with the Stars is proof that popular elections don’t work. When Juan Pablo Di Pace, with 4 perfect 30s including two in the semi finals, gets voted off with Grocery Store Joe Amapoli, who rightfully should have been gone in Week 4 ...
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Armistice Day is now known as Veteran’s Day. This was the day the officially ended World War 1 – “the war to end all wars.” Unfortunately, if you know your history, it was more like the war to start a century of wars. Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in World War 1. ...
