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	<description>“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”</description>
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		<title>Test Lab Setup with VirtualBox Tutorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I decided to setup a test lab to play with Windows 2008 Server. Microsoft has announced the retirement of mainstream 2003 support , which is happening this July. I was able to download a licensed ISO of the 64-bit Windows 2008 Server from MSDN Academic Alliance, which includedStandard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (and 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=245</link>
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		<title>Your Life, Live on Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good article in the LA Times business section today &#8211; Online, your life is searchable. It&#8217;s good to see this issue getting a larger exposure. From the article:
Online information about consumers comes from several sources. Public records such as campaign contributions, property sales and court cases are increasingly posted on the Internet. At the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=242</link>
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		<title>Privacy needs pro-active security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a great (if not really long) article by Simson Garfinkel over at the Technology Review discussing our privacy and the need to be vigilant and proactive. Privacy by inaction doesn&#8217;t cut it in our digital age. Keeping your head low won&#8217;t keep your name or picture out of the massive government and private-sector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=237</link>
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		<title>The insecurity of &#8217;secret question&#8217; authentication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago my colleague blogged about the importance of secret questions in keeping your online accounts safe. We came to the conclusion that security questions, in many implementations, can actually decrease your overall level of security. Security questions are a secondary means of authentication used when the primary method fails. So when you forget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Linux Swap Partition Encryption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An often overlooked aspect to security is the swap partition. A swap partition is a partition used to temporarily store data when ram is low. Any thing that might be stored in ram could be placed in your swap partition, such as passwords and encryption keys. These passwords and keys could be retrieved by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Netbook Remix / Desktop Home Encryption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last week I got my new Acer Aspire One, awesome little netbook here. First things first, I had to remove Windows XP Home and put Ubuntu 9.04 on it. Everything runs pretty good, the webcam works, and the microphone works properly after setting the sound capture to &#8216;HDA Intel ALC268 Analog (ALSA)&#8217;.
Being so small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=168</link>
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		<title>FBI spyware has been catching criminals for years</title>
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Last Thursday wired.com, through the FOIA,  obtained 100&#8217;s of pages of  documents that detail seven years of the FBI&#8217;s use of malicious software in tracking down hackers, hitmen, extortionists and terrorist suspects. The released documents, available for download here, are of course heavily redacted. The software is called CIPAV, or &#8220;computer and internet protocol address [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all read the news about yesterday&#8217;s early morning fiber cuts in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The first cut, which was AT&#38;T fiber, happened around 1:30am alongside Monterey Highway near Blossom Hill Road, in San Jose. At 3:30am more AT&#38;T fiber was cut along Old County Road near Bing Street in San Carlos.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Identity Theft and the Social Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Scheiner is covering an interesting security aspect of Web 2.0 over at his blog: identity theft scams. Though I believe a more apt category would be social engineering, because this vulnerability is not limited to solely ID theft. This demonstrates the need to be vigilant in deciding who to friend on these social networking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Anonymity in the age of Web 2.0</title>
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I&#8217;ve recently returned from a long hiatus from the &#8216;net. Working in the IT industry and being an all-around computer geek my entire life, a prolonged absence from modern technology (especially the Internet) was a strange experience. Since I&#8217;ve always been a strong believer in personal privacy, and in how this privacy can be enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindhack.us/?p=107</link>
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