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| bio | website | security.stackexchange.com/… |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 43 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | May 9 at 12:29 | |
| stats | profile views | 63 |
I am no longer a parent; my son is happy and well but I can't see him until I get some stuff sorted out.
Parenting Stack Exchange is unbearably sad for me now.
Thanks for the help, and I hope that I was at least some use here.
I welcome friendly chats over email. dan dot bealecocks at googlemail dot com yes that's my real name.
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Mar 17 |
asked | Can a user's Apple Keychain be opened on a different computer? |
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Feb 20 |
awarded | Famous Question |
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Dec 19 |
awarded | Booster |
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Dec 19 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Oct 22 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 30 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 11 |
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Is Steganography a safe method to store secret data? Re-reading it it doesn't make much sense. Maybe "compress first and then encrypt, before steganography"? |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Caucus |
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May 2 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Apr 21 |
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XKCD #936: Short complex password, or long dictionary passphrase? @kizzx2 - yes. 96^11 is smaller than 7776^6. Thus, a random password of 11 letters, chosen from 96 different characters, will be hard to use but quite good; while a random passphrase of 6 words (chosen from a list of 7776 words) will be easy to use and stronger. |
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Mar 27 |
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Too many passwords? @CamiloMartin - here's one board where battery is optional if cord is left connected (motherboards.org/files/manuals/7/ax6bc-ol-e.pdf) if the cord is disconnected you lose the RTC info but everything else is stored to EEROM. Here's an article which mentions capacitors used instead of batteries. (tomshardware.com/reviews/…) Here's a laptop that doesn't have motherboard battery (uses main battery or a capacitor) (support.apple.com/kb/TA25911?viewlocale=en_US). |
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Feb 1 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Oct 16 |
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What configuration will allow another computer in the internet to probe my computer's ports? @Pacerier - Gibson has, for a long time, been seen as a joke by many people. SpinRite was a good product, but even that was only true years ago. |
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Oct 16 |
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Too many passwords? "you'll most likely be successful by removing the CMOS battery and waiting a few seconds" - which modern motherboards still have BIOS batteries? |
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Oct 16 |
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How do I ensure that my computer is 100% worm-free? I don't understand this sentence "Is it true to say that as long as I am not connected to the internet, and only download programs" - how can you download anything if you're not connected to the Internet? |
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Oct 3 |
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Atypical DRM situation: distribute pictures to select partners, then prevent them from reusing them I suspect one answer maybe to make each image very slightly (by a couple of pixels) different, and then take cryptographically secure hashes. This way you'd know which partner released the image, if any were released. I also think that online distribution is doomed. |
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Oct 2 |
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Can someone tell if you delete deleted files? made first sentence clearer, shortened second sentence |
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Oct 2 |
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How easily are keyloggers foiled? The site asking for the password could only ask for certain character (what is the second, third, and eighth character?). |
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Oct 2 |
suggested | suggested edit on Can someone tell if you delete deleted files? |
