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Password Security

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had her email hacked. I frankly find the event unsurprising. It only confirms just how little most people understand security and technology and where it’s going. It reminds me that the people I follow and enjoy online and the geeks around me are a small segment of today’s society. That a large part of the people in the world today don’t fully understand the potential, the danger, or the ease by which information can be found and shared.

A website I am a regular reader of is Heal Your Church WebSite. Dean Peters actually wrote an article about password before the news broke of Gov. Palin’s misfortune. And wrote a follow-up after the news was out.

So if you are wondering how to avoid Gov. Palin’s embarassment then read the following two links. Good, sound advice:

Tags: email, Heal Your Church Website, Password, Sarah Palin, Security

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Quote: “illusion of progress”

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I stumbled upon this qute tonight and it really struck me as indicitive of the way my life has felt this year. I can’t even explain exactly how I stumbled upon it. So I’ll simply offer it up and see how it strikes you.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

The quote is by Charlton Ogburn from “Merrill’s Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure” in the January 1957 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Tags: Charlton Ogburn, Merrill's Marauders, quote, WWII

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