It’s interesting that I read two things about buying Twitter publicity today: John C Dvorak’s experiment for PC Magazine and an interview with my classmate and friend Ken. The idea is that people buy Twitter followers to make themselves look bigger than they are, whether they’re celebrities trying to make themselves look like they’re on [...]
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Exploiting Twitter
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 10, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/exploiting-twitter/
The ethics of writing nefarious security instructions
This week I posted a link to a video showing how to crack a WPS-enabled wifi network, and this week, Ars Technica wrote a firsthand account of cracking a password list. I’m sure this raises questions of ethics in some people’s minds. To be honest, spreading this kind of information makes me a little uncomfortable [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 28, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/the-ethics-of-writing-nefarious-security-instructions/
No, it doesn’t take a “serious hacker” to crack wi-fi through WPS
John C Dvorak is raving in PC Magazine about Netgear wireless routers and range extenders and how easy WPS makes it to set them up–and providing some very seriously flawed security advice along the way. “Note that WPS is crackable by serious hackers using brute-force attack, but any SOHO user not dealing with government secrets [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 26, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/no-it-doesnt-take-a-serious-hacker-to-crack-wi-fi-through-wps/
Dvorak: The future of retail is search
This week in PC Magazine, John C Dvorak said the future of retail is search. He’s right.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 29, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/dvorak-the-future-of-retail-is-search/
Dvorak is wrong about the cyber war
So John C Dvorak (I’ll call him John Dvorak because he hates it–John Dvorak John Dvorak John Dvorak) says that cyber warfare, like Y2K, is a bunch of hooey. I lived through Y2K, and I’m fighting the cyber war. He’s wrong on both counts.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 14, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/10/dvorak-is-wrong-about-the-cyber-war/
Windows 8 won’t fail just because nobody likes Windows upgrades
John C Dvorak wrote today about the great upgrade upheaval, and argued that Windows 8 is doomed to fail because it’s just going to be too hard to upgrade, and nobody likes Windows upgrades anyway. I agree on the first point but not the second.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 4, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/10/windows-8-wont-fail-just-because-nobody-likes-windows-upgrades/
The CP/M-DOS forensics don’t prove much
I saw the headline on Slashdot: Forensic evidence trying to prove whether MS-DOS contained code lifted from CP/M. That got my attention, as the connection between MS-DOS and its predecessor, CP/M, is one of the great unsolved mysteries of computing. Unfortunately, the forensic evidence doesn’t prove a lot.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 7, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/08/the-cpm-dos-forensics-dont-prove-much/
Getting Firefox out of the doldrums
John C. Dvorak asks what’s wrong with Firefox, and suggests forking as a possible solution. It sounds to me like one or more plugins he’s running is causing problems. I run Firefox on Vista (unfortunately), with as few plugins as possible, and I don’t have the issues he describes. Memory usage does spiral out of [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/getting-firefox-out-of-the-doldrums/
Don’t call the war on hackers unwinnable
John C Dvorak asks what war we’re waging on hackers. While war may not be the best choice of words, because it’s not exactly a conventional war, there’s no question there’s something going on, and we’re not winning it right now. The latest salvo is that someone in China is building a botnet using Macintoshes.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 31, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/dont-call-the-war-on-hackers-unwinnable/
Securing wi-fi isn’t about price gouging
The so-called wi-fi golden era is over, and apparently being glad about it makes me an absolutist. But John C. Dvorak is wrong. This isn’t about making people pay for Internet access. It’s pure security. Toilets and drinking fountains are free because the majority of people don’t abuse them. The Internet can’t be wide open [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 28, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/securing-wi-fi-isnt-about-price-gouging/