The mistake here would be to believe that extra password rules increase security. They do not. They increase user annoyance; and they make users choose passwords that are harder to memorize. For some weird psychological reason, most people believe that a password with non-letter symbols is "more ...

Q: Why should OS X be afraid of Windows 7? A: Because 7 8 9. And 10 is next.

When my coworker thinks that there is no need for a test on his PC, he makes changes, commits and then pushes. Then he tests on the production server and realizes that he made a mistake. It happens once in a week. Now I see that he made 3 commits and and pushes with deployment to the production s...

To make hashes harder to target by specialized hardware, I intuitively imagine that mixing a set of different hash algorithms should provide additional strength. For simplicity lets assume Hash1 is a number of iterations of SHA256, Hash2 is bcrypt and Hash3 is scrypt: myhash = Hash1(Hash2(Hash3(...

My flight is from Washington, D.C. (IAD) to London Heathrow , with British Airways. Important Details The Bazooka will be bought legally from a shop in Maryland British Airways' website explains in details the policy regarding decommissioned firearms. The Bazooka is de-activated. UK Violent C...

I'll be wearing it all the time anyway once I arrive at my hostile destination but how about wearing it during the flight? It makes sense to wear it in case someone try to hijack the plane.

Obviously we all know about the oxygen masks but let's say there was a strong exceptional reason for me to get off the airplane, are there parachutes that normal passengers have access to? I cant recall mentioning parachutes in the mini lecture the aircrew give before taking off.

Ryanair is very cheap and I can afford to pay for another seat in exchange for a little bit more comfort. I do that sometimes on the train and there are no laws against it as far as I know. On the train I can claim that my wife just went to the toilet and show that I have the ticket for the seat ...

The security advantages of this is that you can see the number of letters in the password, thereby greatly reducing the attack space.

This is not true, PHP is widely used for banking transaction. However it's rare for banking sites, because banks can afford expensive IDEs like Visual studio, so they prefer it instead. Also dedicated servers. You can bypass security on both java and c# as well PHP, you can secure both to the sam...

I got fun idea how to increase the security of the SSL (TLS) for websites. However I think there is no support for it in the browsers, so I thought I could add it eventually, but have no idea if it's supported. Currently SSL works the way that there is always some English language country based ...

I have posted a few unusual questions, they have received a decent amount of votes & answers. I would like to believe they were good questions as in "haven't been asked before & fit this websites standards". In spite of that I have been accused of trolling and received some negative attention as...

I recently had a new asphalt driveway installed. Due to the slope of the driveway they stopped about 2 1/2 feet from garage. This has created a problem with the end of driveway being 5 1/2 inches higher than the garage floor. This makes it extremely difficult to get motorcycles in and out. ...

If you think laterally, it is quite similar to a burrito.

With 85 sites, the current all-site search is barely better than plain Google. For example, "sql" returns 60 million hits, "crime" returns 175 million hits, and "sql crime" returns 1,360,000 hits. Searching for [sql] is treated the exact same way as sql. Tag search does not work. This means th...

I just heard that it isn't recommended to use sudo -i on GUI programs - because it's less secure. Is there any truth here - is there an advantage to this: sudo -i gedit /random/file.name over pkexec gedit /random/file.name I used to use gksudo, but that's been phased out, so now I use sudo...