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Security


Leaking Naked Photos, Crotch Grabbing, and Other TSA Hobbies

by John P.

TSA Full Body Scanner

TSA Full Body Scanner

If you’re an experienced traveler, you may have noticed by now that the TSA has installed the full body scanners in basically every airport in the US. It was over three years ago when I reported that “The TSA is Going to Photograph You Naked!!!“, and the mandatory scanning has now gone into effect.

“We Don’t Save The Photos.” Really?!?

Despite promises that these full body scanning systems will not save naked photos of you, recently it was discovered that 35,000 photos of naked citizens were being stored by the U.S. Marshal’s Service (another Federal agency) and over 100 of those photos were leaked.
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Protect WordPress from Hackers – Secure that Beeotch!

December 3, 2009

Dammit!!!! I HATE SPAMMERS MORE THAN ANYONE ON EARTH! I honestly, 100% mean it when I say that I want to KILL spammers. You guys are laughing right now… “hehehe. Here goes that crazy John P. with another rant about spammers. Aww, he’s just kidding!” No! I am an ex-Marine, I own guns and knives, [...]

The M134 Dillon Gatling Gun is One Scary Weapon

June 27, 2008
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The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun is the finest small caliber, defense suppression weapon available. It is a six barreled, electrically driven machine gun in service with the US and Allied Armed Forces. Here is Richard “Mack” Machowicz from The Discovery Channel’s show Future Weapons giving the run down on the fastest gun on the planet. [...]

Iron Mountain – The Most Secure Civilian Facility IN Earth

May 14, 2008

You know how people are always talking about Ft. Knox being really secure? Well, here is the civilian equivalent! Iron Mountain Inc is a company specializing in data storage. The best known Iron Mountain storage facility is a high-security cave in a former limestone mine at Boyers, Pennsylvania near the city of Butler in the [...]

Tutorial: How-to Recover Windows Login Passwords

January 7, 2008
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Windows security is sad. Although most of you have probably already read my article about using strong passwords, even the strongest passwords won’t keep your Windows login account from being penetrated. In fact, it takes only a couple of minutes to gain complete access to a Windows system using nothing more than a free CD [...]

TSA = Thousands Standing Around

November 28, 2007
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Uugh. The Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) has really fulfilled their goal of making life for a billion travelers a year completely miserable. You know what TSA stands for? Thousands Standing Around Take Scissors Away Truly Stupid Activities

John P on Connecticut Public Radio

November 25, 2007
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Bruce Barber, from the Real Life Survival Guide, recently interviewed me via phone for a segment on Password Security. That segment will go live today on Connecticut Public Radio, so I’d like to welcome any visitors stopping by as a result. For the rest of us that don’t happen to live in Connecticut, here is [...]

So You Think Your Cell Phone is Safe?

October 30, 2007

There is nothing like instilling a little fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) to help sell a product… or a consulting service! Some young guys in L.A. garnered some serious attention when they told ABC News that they could hack cell phones of the rich and famous. And this short video is the result of that [...]

The Threat of Free Public WiFi

October 23, 2007

Folks, I was at the airport and I popped open my laptop to hop on the net and upon doing so I encountered a seriously sneaky bastard. Do you see anything wrong with the image below? Well, hopefully you notice the little icon of a laptop beside the network entitled “Free Public WiFi”. This is [...]