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Security

Bitcoin - pulling the curtains on computer security

All software contain bugs. All complex software contain numerous bugs. Some of those bugs are security holes. When you hear that a software vendor has found and fixed a security problem that means that somehow that specific bug came up on someone’s radar. People who find these holes for a living, and there are quite a few, sell them to others who then exploit them to create massive botnets, extract credit card information from unsuspecting users or in some cases try to attack online banking accounts.

Bitcoin · English · Internet · Security · Uncategorized

3 minutes

Security and Web 2.0

Here is the text broken up into paragraphs: I’ll admit, I hadn’t read [Getting Things Done](http://www.davidco.com/ "Getting Things Done") until now. Sorry. I guess I never got around to do it. Luckily, I seem to be half a GTD’er to start with - which means the topic of security in this context has been on my mind for quite some time. While it’s not something swept under the rug completely (one example being the steps taken by [Evernote](http://blog.

Cloudcomputing · English · Evernote · Gtd · Internet · Security · Web20

3 minutes