Archives for the Month of August, 2010

Password angst and the modern Graphics Processing Unit

It seemed like all we needed to do was mix in some numbers and funny characters and that would make our passwords extra super secret enough to protect our Lego ID from the dark force. This belief was based on the understanding that only those with supercomputers at their disposal would have the computational ability [...]

I wish the hackers would leave PDF alone!

In case I haven’t made myself clear in other posts, I like PDF documents. I mean I Really Like PDF documents. And I want to be able to treat a PDF file exactly as I would a sheaf of printed pages. Then along comes someone who exploits yet another bug in someone’s PDF renderer. A [...]