I collect little quotes and funny thoughts and have them randomly shown below my mail, one at a time. Over the years I have done this in a number of ways, but never found a really practical solution other than running a dedicated program, when I was on Windows. I was never able to find a proper solution for OSX.
Scripting for OSX: repeating job
A method for storing private keys offline
One of the issues with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has always been a way to safely store and backup the private keys. Most of the time this is done by using a keydatabase for storing the keys or even an HSM in larger organizations. And the only backup solution I encountered so far was burning the key to a CD-R or storing it on an USB stick and putting them in a (physical) vault, controlled by the Security Office.
I have a smarter idea for offline backups!
categorie(s): security, technology, work
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Crash Recovery of an OSX Lion FileVault2 disk
My Apple iMac started to behave weird, with some Kernel Panics, grey screens and general crashes. While I was going through this I was pretty sure it wouldn’t hurt me as I had a TimeMachine for continuous backups. How wrong could I be!
After my Mac really crashed and my TimeMachine proved to be rubbish, I still managed to open the encrypted harddisk and made some backups by hand. I consider this quite a neat trick, so let me explain and perhaps save your day as well.
(updated with extra info)
categorie(s): security, technology
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Security is not about Technology, but Habits
At the IBM conference in Berlin I realized that I have been preaching some ideas about (internet) security for a while. The gist of this idea is that security in the ‘world of computers’ (also referenced as the internet, on-line or -nowadays- clouds) is not all about technical solutions. In fact the most important component are not the technical implementations. Besides, these are pretty easy, although most people try to hide that.
Let me be clear and frank: implementing a secure computer system is hard, requires quite some knowledge, but so is programming a reasonable application or a corporate website as well. I think that putting a house or car together is even much harder. It is just another set of skills and you probably need specialized personnel to handle the security stuff for you. It is still a skill set most intelligent people could acquire.
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