On the failure to comprehend the definition of “secret”

Posted by Synfinatic on July 22, 2008 at 12:13 pm in Security.

This seems to be pretty basic and obvious, but a the first rule about keeping a secret is don’t tell people. Frankly, I think Dan should be pretty happy that the details about the DNS vulnerability he discovered took this long to emerge publicly. As he pointed out, 13 days are better then zero.

Tags: dns, Kaminsky, Ptacek, secret, vulnerability

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Twain was right

Posted by Synfinatic on at 12:41 am in Life.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. — Mark Twain

Tags: Cabernet, vinocellar, wisdom

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Capital One makes it right

Posted by Synfinatic on July 21, 2008 at 10:14 am in Cool.

So I’ve been freaking out the last week after getting a letter in the mail from Capital One stating that my final payment of $73 on my car loan was 30 days past due. This was a rather big surprise to me since my contract states they are to auto-deducted payment from my checking account and had done so for the previous 59 months. To make matters worse, I need to keep my credit report in tip top shape since we’ve been approved for a home loan and wanted to make an offer on a house this month.

Tags: capital one, credit, loan

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Cabernet Search Rewrite

Posted by Synfinatic on July 18, 2008 at 1:33 pm in Cabernet.

So I’m in the process of ripping out Ferret and moving to Ultrasphinx for Cabernet’s search engine.

Tags: Cabernet, cellartracker, ultrasphinx

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Obama’s 180

Posted by Synfinatic on July 16, 2008 at 8:36 am in Politics, The Law.

Tags: 180, FISA, freedom, obama

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Building a Community

Posted by Synfinatic on July 13, 2008 at 10:05 am in Cabernet.

Since good things come in threes, I decided to write about what I think it takes to build a successful team to run a community website. If you haven’t yet already, be sure to read Part One and Part Two first.

Tags: Cabernet, community, openpacket, people, project management

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I don’t completely suck after all

Posted by Synfinatic on July 7, 2008 at 8:42 am in Cabernet.

So I’ve spent a great deal of time over this 4th of July holiday working on Cabernet and I have to say, it’s beginning to look presentable.

Tags: Cabernet, Code, css, pretty

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