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Finding and blocking an abusive host from your Apache log

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:07:41 +0000

My web site slowed to a crawl last night, my CPU usage soared to 100%, and my built-in security measures weren’t helping. I ended up having to do some old-school Linux sysadmin work to stop them. I haven’t been an

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Blu Studio One review

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:17 +0000

I needed a phone in a hurry the other day when my wife’s Moto E started acting up. We turned to the Blu Studio One, specifically model# S0110UU. This is my Blu Studio One review. It’s an inexpensive midrange phone for

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The freedom to fix our stuff

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:00:23 +0000

This week the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial about the right to fix our gadgets. It was surprisingly pro-consumer. The author wrote about a friend whose Samsung TV broke due to $12 worth of capacitors and how he fixed

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Expect a rough road ahead for Flash

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:00:05 +0000

Adobe has patched Flash twice in two weeks now. The reason for this was due to Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to government agencies, getting hacked. Hacking Team, it turns out, knew of at least three

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Don’t e-mail yourself a list of all your passwords and bank account numbers to yourself from work

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:00:04 +0000

So my buddy, we’ll call him Bob, runs Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for a big company. DLP is software that limits what you can do with sensitive information, in order to block it from going out of the company. The NSA wasn’t

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How to use the lock in your web browser’s location bar

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:00:06 +0000

A commenter asked me last week if I really believe the lock in a web browser means something. I’ve configured and tested and reviewed hundreds of web servers over the years, so I certainly hope it does. I spend a

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Linux is unrelated to extremism

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:00:41 +0000

The NSA’s spying on Linux Journal readers is precisely what’s wrong with NSA spying. Why? It paints with an overly broad brush. Eric Raymond’s views on many things are on the fringes of what’s considered mainstream, but he’s not the

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Passwords you need to change in Heartbleed’s wake

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:55:09 +0000

Heartbleed, a serious vulnerability in a piece of Internet backend software called OpenSSL, is the security story of the week. Vulnerable OpenSSL versions allow an attacker to see parts of a web session they aren’t supposed to see, including passwords

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You need a Yubikey.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:39:06 +0000

I mentioned the Yubikey as the ultimate solution stolen passwords on the excellent Yahoo Marx Train forum, and another member asked me to elaborate on it. Rather than take up a lot of space with some off-topic discussion, I decided

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Financial advice from Kiplinger

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:21 +0000

If you’re looking for ways to waste money, here’s 28 ways to do it. If you’re afraid you might be wasting money, the same link is 28 common ways that people do it. I’ve covered most of this ground before,

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