Passwords
We have too many passwords all over the place. They are needed of course. But I think it is harder and more time consuming for me to remember or lookup or try password combinations, than it would be for a hacker to break in for me.
It's not every day one of my clients makes the news
"MRSA infections troubling, but not surprising"
Stories By DAWN ZERA Times Leader Correspondent
An antibiotic-resistant infection nicknamed MRSA, an acronym for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection, has made headlines recently. But local medical professionals have known for years that there has been an increase in patients with MRSA.
Kevin Buck, principal of California-based Emergent Success , conducted training sessions on MRSA last week at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Plains Township.
Continue reading at timesleader.com
Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer, sorta
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104057
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"Firefox users on isoHunt have now overtaken IE users, and I see the trend continuing in more Firefox adoption. The less reliance on standard non-compliant and malware-friendly IE, the better." Firefox Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.19% Internet Explorer Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.07% Opera Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 3.79% Safari Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 2.91% |
It can be hypothesized that users of this type of site are very smart and concerned about security. That being true, these numbers tell how people feel about security implementations in their browsers!
Surely a huge population of this site is also 'normal' people looking for pirated media, and have no clue about security. I wonder how the numbers would be more affected if all of the users knew of the differences in IE and FF.
