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Comment on Convergence Really Coming? by Zoinger

Zoinger — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:36:29 +0000

blurtek,

Thanks man. I added you to my bloglines blogroll.

Comment on Convergence Really Coming? by blurtek

blurtek — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:19:03 +0000

I like your comments on convergence. They really echo my own thoughts. I have just started a blog (trying to) cover this topic. I’d love to post a link to here. Good to support the community.

Comment on Stupid Bank Password Rules by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:00:57 +0000

I hate that! I’ve been using a Javascript bookmarklet for generating more sensitive passwords (http://labs.zarate.org/passwd/). It takes a “master” password that you enter into a Javascript-generated dialog box and does an MD5 hash with that master password and the domain of the website you are accessing. It then truncates it to a specified length. Heck, even I don’t know my passwords on several of the sites I use; I just know it gets generated correctly every time. Works great, gives you unhackable passwords that are different for every site and has both the bookmarklet for when you’re using your own browser and a web-based generator for when you’re on the road. It has, however, the same problem you encountered - the generated passwords don’t always conform to some stupid requirement from the site’s owner. I can pretty much rely on a letter and a number being generated, but upper case and special characters? I don’t think so!

The other password thing that gets me is Starwood’s common use of the password for both the web and for the phone. When I make a reservation at a Starwood property over the phone, they ask for the password I created on the web. Somehow, it just doesn’t feel secure having the CSRs have access to my password. One could argue that there’s not much that an unauthorized user could do on the Starwood site, but most people use the same username and password for most of the sites that require it, so theoretically, a savvy CSR could go to Paypal or a banking site and try the same combination. Even at Y!, CSRs can change passwords if the user has the right security question answers, but they can’t ever see the current password.

Comment on Sanyo’s Xacti VPC-HD1 Flash-based, 720p Camcorder by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:56:58 +0000

Steve’s may like it, but Akihabara News thought the video quality sucked, especially in HD: http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/sanyo-hd1-camcorders-video-quality-called-disastrous-157656.php.
Still waiting for that ultimate camera/camcorder, but we’re getting closer.

Comment on WSJ — The Art of Outsourcing by Zoinger » Blog Archive » Example of Comment Spam

Zoinger » Blog Archive » Example of Comment Spam — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:04:19 +0000

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