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home: http://truecrypt.ch/

source: https://github.com/FreeApophis/TrueCrypt

twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueCryptNext

Verification: lead development of 50MD and 300MD mobile html5 apps for major UK TV's and even people who did see CS first time were able to pick it up quickly. I had literally about 5 cases when I had to answer some chat questions on how CS works, and about the same count when I corrected/optimized some CS usage in a code review.

The productivity gain was impressive. In ducktyping, but esp. in __understanding__ the code quickly.

We're not going back.

Lots of other utils can be also found in GnuWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html.

Btw, the sed in Gow would deserve update from 3.0.2 ;) https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list

  def calculate(a, b, c, memo={}):
    try:
      value = memo[a, b, c] # return already calculated value
    except KeyError:
      value = heavy_calculation(a, b, c)
      memo[a, b, c] = value # update the memo dictionary
      return value

  def f(x=None): if x is None: x = []

https://github.com/search?q=password+strength https://sun.athnic.net/password-test.html http://www.geekwisdom.com/dyn/passwdmeter http://cafewebmaster.com/check-password-safety-javascript-wh...

  >python wordlist.py -w wordlist -p wordlist.pkl
  >python wordlist.py -T wordlist wordlist.pkl 10 3
  2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
  words(wordfile): 142.50 best msec/loop
  words_slower(wordfile): 161.00 best msec/loop
  words_normalized(wordfile): 295.84 best msec/loop
  words_pickled(pickled): 2943.66 best msec/loop

  with open(wordfile) as wordlist:
      return frozenset(wordlist.read().split('\n'))

Wordlist: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/dict/web2?re...

Do you have different results?

  with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as wordlist:
      words = set(line[:-1] for line in wordlist)

  import sys
  lookup = '%s\n' % sys.argv[1]
  with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as wordlist:
      [ sys.stdout.write('Dictionary password: %s' % lookup) or sys.exit(1) for line in wordlist if line == lookup ]

Also, if you got a strong and unique password, and do not login from untrusted devices that may be keylogged, you're quite safe already.

* It appears that someone who performs audits on our system and had read-only access to our database had their computer compromised. This allowed for someone to pull our database. The site was not compromised with a SQL injection as many are reporting, so in effect the site was not hacked.

* Two months ago we migrated from MD5 hashing to freeBSD MD5 salted hashing. The unsalted user accounts in the wild are ones that haven't been accessed in over 2 months and are considered idle. Once we are back up we will have implemented SHA-512 multi-iteration salted hashing and all users will be required to update to a new strong password.

* We have been working with Google to ensure any gmail accounts associated with Mt.Gox user accounts have been locked and need to be reverified.

* Mt.Gox will continue to be offline as we continue our investigation, at this time we are pushing it to 8:00am GMT.

* When Mt.Gox comes back online, we will be putting all users through a new security measure to authenticate the users. This will be a mix of matching the last IP address that accessed the account, verifying their email address, account name and old password. Users will then be prompted to enter in a new strong password.

* Once Mt.Gox is back online, trades 218869~222470 will be reverted.

https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...

While the issues mentioned in the article are valid, it's still so much easier for me to maintain all family (and several friends) pc/laptops around, after I migrated them from Windows to Kubuntu/Xubuntu. The desktops just work and don't break, which is not something you can say about the Windows tamagotchi thing - you need to care about this one, or keep it restricted.

Yep, when you talk about known problems. Still often both the problem and solution (which is just another view of problem) lie just outside current scope of people imagination, and are only found by prospective minds when the way is open (other conditions met).

There was not simply some kind of existing solution for Internet 50 years ago.

The 60 years old Gandhi paradigm is still reusable with modern tools today, compare e.g. with mobile/Internet impact on village production business.

Greer on Gandhi economical paradigm: "His suggestion, to condense some very subtle thinking into too few words, was that a nation that had a vast labor force but very little money was wasting its time to invest that money in state-of-the-art industrial plants; instead, he suggested, the most effective approach was to equip that vast labor force with tools that would improve their productivity within the existing structures of resource supply, production and distribution.

Instead of replacing India's huge home-based spinning and weaving industries with factories, for example, and throwing millions of spinners and weavers out of work, he argued that the most effective use of India's limited resources was to help those spinners and weavers upgrade their skills, spinning wheels, and looms, so they could produce more cloth at a lower price, continue to support themselves by their labor, and in the process make India self-sufficient in clothing production." - http://silverbearcafe.com/private/02.10/factories.html

Edit: added second paragraph in the citation