TagsTagsImage credit: Shutterstock In Utah, Republicans are putting in place another right wing social engineering program -- a bill that will require all sex education classes to follow an abstinence-only curriculum prohibiting any instruction in contraception. A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming ...
Utah, Republican Party, Social Engineering, Religious Right, Contraception, Birth Control, Sex Education, Bad Craziness
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, a colleague ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier
To start off this Sunday, I’ve now disabled the Sneaky Comment Trick Proof of Concept, so that any deleted comments will now appear as “deleted” to everyone, including those who posted them. It’s a fun trick to play with, and I’ve saved the code that does it, but it’s thoroughly evil. ...
As we noted earlier today, the San Francisco Chronicle is using a sneaky trick in their commenting software; if you post a comment at the SFGate.com web site, and the administrators delete it, you will not know it’s been deleted—because it still shows up when you look at the page, ...