State Department Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:03:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Hillary, hackers, threats, and national security https://dfarq.homeip.net/hillary-hackers-threats-and-national-security/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hillary-hackers-threats-and-national-security https://dfarq.homeip.net/hillary-hackers-threats-and-national-security/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:00:18 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=7626 I got a point-blank question in the comments earlier this week: Did Hillary Clinton’s home-made mail server put national secrets at risk of being hacked by our enemies? Depending on the enemies, maybe marginally. But not enough that any security

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/hillary-hackers-threats-and-national-security/feed/ 4 7626 The State Department is just one of many examples of IT gone rogue https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-state-department-is-just-one-of-many-examples-of-it-gone-rogue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-state-department-is-just-one-of-many-examples-of-it-gone-rogue https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-state-department-is-just-one-of-many-examples-of-it-gone-rogue/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:00:43 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=7624 Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s use of her own mail server, running out of her home. It didn’t change my opinion of her, and I don’t think it changed anyone else’s either–it just reinforces what everyone has thought

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-state-department-is-just-one-of-many-examples-of-it-gone-rogue/feed/ 3 7624 Wikipedia hits half a million entries https://dfarq.homeip.net/wikipedia-hits-half-a-million-entries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikipedia-hits-half-a-million-entries Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:46:46 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1420 Wikipedia made it. Half a million articles. 1.25 gigabytes of raw text.

That's a lot. I remember when I first read about CD-ROMs, one of the best examples they included to talk about its 600-megabyte capacity--which was unthinkable in the days when 40-gig hard drives were mainstream--was that it was enough to hold a whole encyclopedia with room to spare.

Not this encyclopedia, I guess.

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