Backup, Networking, Security
The cost of storage hit a low the last time it was time for a storage upgrade. Then prices shot through the roof after a flood in Thailand closed factories. This shut down all of my hard drives purchases for over two years. When I emerged from my cocoon, Samsung was gone as a...
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Earlier this week, Amazon announced Glacier, which is long-term storage that costs one cent a gigabyte per month. This compares to the 12 cents a gigabyte per month for S3. The basic difference is that Glacier can take between 3 and 5 hours to retrieve data, and S3 is instantaneous. “Amazon S3 is a...
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Every tech pundit out there has been talking about the heartbreaking story of Mat Honan of Wired and how hackers used social engineering to gain access to one of his accounts, and the chain reaction results. One of Honan’s problems stemmed from how his accounts were daisy-chained together. `The recovery email for one account...
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Wireless-G has been the established standard for the last few years. We remember when we started playing with Wireless-B. It was only recently we jumped to Wireless-N. We didn’t need the speed jump. With the increasing crowding of wireless spectrum, gigabit wired networks, where possible, are probably a good move. We jumped this past...
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Image via Wikipedia Crunchgear reports today that researchers have developed an attack against WPA Encryption when using the TKIP protocol. If you haven’t already, change your wireless access point security settings to the AES Protocol, or switch to WPA2 to stay one step ahead of them. Or, if you are out and about, and...
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Image by lerxst / boycat via Flickr Recently, the excess of computer wires hooking together our systems and unsuccessful attempts to get them into order frustrated us. So, with a significant investment of time, and the cost of some organizational tools, ie some new cables, cable tacks, velcro ties, etc., we’re going to try...
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Early on, wireless networks were encrypted using WEP encryption, until it was discovered even the FBI could crack that in a minute. Then came WPA, which was supposedly much more secure. However, researchers have figured out a way to break the TKIP key in about 12 to 15 minutes. Experts had known that a...
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We recently pulled out the Linksys Network Storage Link USB 2.0, aka the NSLU2, affectionately nicknamed the SLUG by enthusiasts. The NSLU2 is actually a Linux-based device, which runs SAMBA, a version of Windows file sharing and has been hacked to run other things. The NSLU2 is not your only choice for hacking in...
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When we originally commented on the security key to be offered by Paypal, we could not secure one. Now…the Consumerist reported that they were available and we arranged to receive one. We will report back as soon as we receive this device.
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