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A CAPTCHA Nightmare
What distinguishes an effective CAPTCHA from a poor CAPTCHA is the ability to make things hard on non-humans without making things hard on humans. Most of the CAPTCHAS I see out there fail in one of those two features. But while I thought I had seen the...
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May 07 2008, 12:23 PM
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So many Windows to break
I just finished writing patch reports for Windows systems I must support for my clients or for my own business. After you put together all the Vistas, XP’s, 2000’s, 2003’s, SP’s, R2’s, x64’s, and IE6 and 7’s,...
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Apr 08 2008, 04:29 PM
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10 Ways to add to my paranoia
A couple of years ago I wrote an article at SecurityFocus.com about my security paranoia, which ended up in a lot of people thinking I went way too far and perhaps needed some mental help. In the article I wrote that instead of the word paranoia, I prefer...
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Feb 22 2008, 01:00 PM
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There’s always a good analogy in an old lady driving down the road dragging a mattress
Today I was driving on the freeway and couldn’t avoid driving over a flattened cardboard box. I looked in my rearview mirror waiting for it to fly out behind me but it never did. Great, I was driving down the freeway with a box stuck to my car. It reminds...
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Feb 14 2008, 12:25 AM
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Why I miss hacking
I have a problem with my two-year old: he keeps getting out of his bedroom. This morning it was 4am and he was climbing over me and my wife, patting us on our heads. It’s not like we haven’t tried containing him. It started when he wouldn’t go down for...
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Feb 07 2008, 11:58 AM
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Mandatory Integrity Control
I thought I would write about a technology introduced in Windows Vista called Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC), which is an access control scheme that Microsoft developed partially based on previous work by others, in particular the Biba model. There...
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Feb 06 2008, 05:59 PM
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Superbowl commercials, a broken window, and a virus
This morning, after being startled by two of my sons arguing over who had the longest turn playing Guitar Hero, and still not quite ready to get out of bed, I grabbed the remote control and started up the DVR recording of the Super Bowl. As my eyes were...
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Feb 04 2008, 10:30 PM
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Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM
For those of you who have been waiting for SP1 before you move to Vista, that time has come: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx Read More...
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Feb 04 2008, 10:25 PM
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IT Security Through Sibling Rivalry
Some of you who know me know I have four kids—all boys. Now when you have four brothers growing up together under the same roof there is a lot of competition. In some families this competition would be with sports or academic achievement. In my house...
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Jan 23 2008, 11:44 AM
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New Tool: Delete files in use and Windows protected files
I thought I would share a tool I had developed a while back as part of my Windows lockdown procedure. Deleting files that are in use and particularly WFP-protected files can be a pain and the methods vary with each version of Windows. X-Out is a simple...
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Jan 05 2008, 05:04 PM
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Making sense of Microsoft malware protection
In case you haven’t noticed, in the last few years Microsoft has released a number of different client protection tools. First it was Windows Defender, then OneCare, and now we are seeing a big push on the Forefront product line. In fact, there are a...
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Jan 03 2008, 03:55 PM
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Recanting my compaint of Vista’s Start Menu
In my last post I vented out some Vista complaints I had. One of those was how Microsoft changes the Start Menu with every version of Windows. In fact, after writing that I did a personal protest and changed the properties of the Start Menu to use the...
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Jan 02 2008, 12:18 PM
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