My small high street laptop repair/service/maintenance shop has been up and running for about 3 years. It's doing quite well so I'm looking to expand into other areas of the PC market.
One area I have decided to invest into is the loan of laptops to customers for a fixed monthly fee.
I want to ...
Password policy questions are a perennial fixture of IT Security stack exchange, and take many forms.
Take, for example, the recent XKCD comic on the subject:
Shortly after it was posted, user Billy ONeal asked directly whether the logic was sound: Is a short complex password or a long dictionary passphrase better? You will find answers that support either conclusion, as well as answers that put the trade-offs involved into context.
Of course, part of knowing how easy a password is to crack is knowing how a password cracker works. Are there state of the art techniques or theory specifically for a …
Peter Grace joins Stack Exchange as Sysadmin in the NYC Headquarters, expanding the System Administration team to 3 people. George, Kyle and Pete are working hard to make sure our growing sites continue to make the internet a better place.
Pete has been married to his lovely wife Kristy for eight years and they have two sons Nate, 3 and Ben, 1. An avid gardener, Pete has successfully grown pumpkins, radishes, cucumbers, swiss chard, snow peas and more. In his spare time, Pete enjoys playing computer games and guns with George. …
