“Extra Large Jumbo Double Strong Cappuccino” - one of the best things about making your own great coffee at home, you get to pick the silly names :)
This guy got it just about right when he starts with:
Passwords are no longer acceptable as a security mechanism. The arrogant security people ask users that passwords be memorable, unguessable, high entropy, all different and never written down. With the proliferation of the number of passwords and the ever-increasing brute-force capabilities of modern computers, passwords of adequate strength are too complicated for human memory, especially when one must remember dozens of them. The above demands cannot all be satisfied simultaneously. Users are right to be pissed off.
Please! Read the paper he links to - it’s a pretty nifty alternative to a scary world :)
Couldn’t agree more!
Please go and spread the word!
To be honest, it’s not really the mysql database servers fault that developers still make these mistakes. But seriously, it’s 2011 guys! :)
Btw. several passwords to mysql.com have been cracked, for instance the director of product management apparently only use a 4 number password. And several admin passwords have also been cracked. So if you have an account, you probably want to change the password.
So, I wanted to try out some media center-ish solutions and started with Plex. But that is as far as I get, Plex is perfect (for me).
I have a stationary computer with all my home video recording, children’s movies, photos and music. And there will be an old Mac Mini attached to the TV to record and view broadcasts.
Plex did a brilliant move, they separated the Media App from the Media Server. So I can have several Plex Media Servers installed on different computers and the Plex app automagically fetches and presents media content from all servers on the network.
I can even start the Plex app on my laptop (with no media server at all) and view movies and TV recordings from my 2 media servers on the other computers.
The iPhone/iPad app is not quite as intelligent, but it still works great. It doubles as a remote and client to views movies/pictures/music etc. You simply select the plex media server or client you want to control and switch to either view content or control a running Plex app.
Finally it looks great and there is small details that just make the app feel really nice. For instance, I have a folder for TV Shows and in it several sub folders with names of the shows and inside the TV shows itself. Plex know it’s TV Shows and when selecting a TV Show (before selecting the episode) I get a nice look in the app with pictures from that exact show and the title music is playing in the background. I know, it’s really on the nice to have list, but it feels so good :)
It doesn’t matter where my content is, it doesn’t matter where I wan’t to view it. Plex just works and make it easy for me to access my content.
Its not that the hackers was exceptionally good, but the company did indeed fail to implement the most basic security best practices.
I can’t believe that these people call themselves security experts - but its a very good story for the rest of us :)
