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Compromise of Fedora systems

jonmoore — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:54:13 +0000

Paul Frields from Fedora posted an message to fedora-announce-list regarding a compermise of some of the Fedora systems. If you use Fedora, it’s worth reading over and following up with. I’m not personally a Fedora user, so I can’t provide and user commentary on this issue.

Read the orgional post here. You can probably followup with this thread, and others from the fedora-announce-list archives

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Don’t let your luck run out.

drale — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:42:17 +0000

Be careful when using the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search on Google. You do not get to see the result’s discription or what webpage you are about to visit and it could cause you some trouble. For example currently “zune windows theme” visits the download URL. So instead of a webpage you are instantly prompted to download a file.

Launch Google Chrome and external links with incognito mode. The instructions floating around are to place the --incognito switch...

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“Always use HTTPS” setting now in Gmail

jonmoore — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:43:32 +0000

Google added a “always use HTTPS” setting to Gmail recently. Very nice addition. No more adding https:// myself and even more importantly, no more forgetting to add it.

I’d recommend that anyone using Gmail enable this option. While email is plain text over the public Ineternet and shouldn’t even remotly be treated as secure communications, it’s still nice to have your credentials private.

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