Liberty Systems & Software

For a long time, i've told my clients and friends that the best way to make a password is to write a short sentence or phrase. A recent study linked from Slashdot IT reinforces this....

This presentation, recently linked on Bruce Schneier's blog is so profound it needs plugging at every opportunity:

From Roger Johnston, funny -- and all too true -- stuff. [Bruce Schneier's Crypto-gram]

CSO Online has a really interesting article about generational differences from the perspective of IT security. While i'm sure it's not highly accurate from a sociological perspective and is probably guilty of overgeneralising, it still offers some food for thought that might be applicable to more areas than IT security. (As is usual with CSO Online, to get a readable version, use the printer-friendly option.)

The latest Ouch! newsletter from SANS has some great advice for end-users about password selection. If only every computer user read this newsletter regularly, the world would be a much safer place in which to compute!Some other useful related resources:
...

IT Toolbox has a great little summary of the experiences of Mike Kavis, a guy who's been living Microsoft free in an all Microsoft shop - at work!...

Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.

From http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s electronic voting systems have “critical security failures” which could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State, according to a review of the systems commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

...