Several days ago, I installed the Redirection plugin from Urban Giraffe. It’s truly awesome, in more ways than one. John Godley, you are an amazing programmer! As I re-arranged the categories on my blog, I tracked the 404 errors through the plugin. On Saturday morning, I noticed the following bit of information in my log:
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Download ComeAcross Podcast 10
Summary: Hurrah! ComeAcross is live! — Caveat Emptor, Davison Inventegration — The harmonica players in “One in a Million” — Star salaries coming down in Hollywood — How to steal someone’s identity with the aid of the US government — Google Translation is fantastic! — “Rhapsody in Blue” (1945) — [...]
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CNN has the details on this. My take is simple: I think the guy’s being used as a scapegoat after proving how easy it is to hack into supposedly “secret” databases/servers. The poor guy wasn’t even trying to cause damage, he was “looking for UFOs”. Not sure what he was thinking (or not thinking) when [...]
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I can’t believe how simple, yet incredibly useful this is! Instead of using silly passwords, with even sillier password rules that give you headaches, just use this! Choose a familiar picture as the password, have the system pixelate the heck out of it, then pick it out from among a group of pixelated photos every [...]
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