This just arrived in my inbox. Someone obviously didn’t read my earlier post:
From: “Google-AdWords-Noreply” support at google.com
To: markt at blahblahblah.blah
Subject: Your AdWords Google Account is stoped.
My account is stoped. My God, how could this have happened?
Inspired by my MythTV tinkering…
I Can’t Watch This
Weird Al Yankovic
I can’t watch this. I can’t watch this
I can’t watch this. I can’t watch this
My my my my TV makes me so bored
Makes me say, oh my lord
What is this garbage here?
Wanna cover my eyes and plug my ears
It sucks, and that’s no lie
It’s about as much fun as watching paint dry
Lowers my IQ one notch
And that’s the reason why, uh, I can’t watch
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Linux users often like to poke fun at Microsoft Windows for being prone to security attacks. Now the joke’s on Linux users: at least Debian and Ubuntu ones. It seems for over two years these distros were hashing their SSH/OpenVPN and other OpenSSL-generated keys using entropy that wasn’t quite entropic. Thus, the keys are easily guessable – a colossal security mistake.
My friend Mike B. sent me a link to DailyTech’s excellent description of the gaffe. It’s well worth a read.
We certainly made the most of our Memorial Day weekend! Saturday we went on a family sail at Lake Gaston, with even the kids taking turns at the helm. Once it was time to dock, we spent some fun time catching up with the Naylors.
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