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I like to engage in "Technology Serving Community" via free software.

Consultant, Data engineer, Ubuntu member, Wikipedia contributor since 2002, ElectionAudits developer, Boulder Community Network co-founder, Internet2 consultant for IDtrust, author of pgpstat, Android enthusiast, ex-Bell Labs web/security/standards maven....

See my web site for way more: http://neal.mcburnett.org/

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How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive?
Jul 28, 2011
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What are the career paths in the computer security field?
May 12, 2011
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How to securely hash passwords?
May 10, 2011
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Why should one not use the same asymmetric key for encryption as they do for signing?
Jan 21, 2011
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XKCD #936: Short complex password, or long dictionary passphrase?
Aug 10, 2011
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How feasible is it for a CA to be hacked? Which default trusted root certificates should I remove?
Feb 24, 2011
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How does changing your password every 90 days increase security?
Jul 11, 2011
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Simple example auditd configuration?
Jun 18, 2011
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Passive and active attacks via X11. Is Wayland any better?
May 5, 2011
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How long should a random nonce be?
Jan 30, 2011
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Is Social Engineering off topic.
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Spam vs market research
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Conflicting policies, and discussing technical issues involving privacy vs control
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Get pandas.read_csv to read empty values as empty string instead of nan
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Print Visually Pleasing DataFrames in For Loop in Jupyter Notebook Pandas
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Why can't PySpark find py4j.java_gateway?
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How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?
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Does Python have a bitfield type?