Author: Vince Kimball

CNET NEWS.COM – Cracking Windows passwords in seconds. If your passwords consist of letters and numbers, beware. Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13.6 seconds, from 1 minute 41 seconds. The method… Continue reading NEWS.COM

Dan Gillmor: Voting machines need paper trails. [Scripting News]

Nearly 800 Church Sex Abuse Victims in Boston, Report Says. The report cited an “institutional acceptance of abuse,” but child-protection laws would not allow charges to be filed. By Kirk Semple. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Update: Hydra 1.1.1. The Rendezvous-based, collaborative text editor gains a “Safari-powered live-updated HTML preview.” [MacInTouch]

MIT Technology Review: Don't Break E-Mail To Save It. Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark. My perspective on design of spam filtration solutions is centered around exploitation of the various constraints of the spammer. One thing we don't talk about enough is the fact that spammers have rather serious constraints. [Tomalak's Realm]

Need a disposable email address so you can sign up for some web site, quick? You've already got one, at Paul Tyma's clever Mailinator. “Just send an email to any address @mailinator.com. Your email address already exists. Get your email sent here, THEN come check mailinator. Your mail will be waiting.” More proof that great… Continue reading Mailinator

The Best Article Your Lawyer Probably Won't Be Reading. From Larry Bodine's Law Marketing Blog – Larry posts about a videotape documenting a focus group in which business clients of lawyers were asked a variety of question about their law firms. Larry delivers the quotes, which will give you a good overview of the current… Continue reading The Best Article Your Lawyer Probably Won't Be Reading

Thread of the Day. Thread of the Day: In macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, a site designer solicits tips on dealing with a client who has so many change-requests that the project no longer hangs together. “Everytime I try and write them a letter explaining why the current… [JD on MX]

Fusebox 4 Released!. The Fusebox website has announced the final release of Fusebox 4. Documentation is still being prepared and the main Fusebox website has yet to be fully updated but you can download the official core files and some example applications from… [An Architect's View]

Death Is a Sloppy Business. Producing death certificates in New York is a bureaucratic nightmare fraught with errors. A plan to do it electronically is going nowhere, so the job is still being done on paper, and often carelessly. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]