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LEAKED: The New Roboform for Android Application

February 4, 2011 By John P. 2 Comments

For those of you who’ve read my article on How I’d Hack Your Passwords, you eventually got to the part where I recommend using a password manager to organize and protect your passwords so you don’t use weak ones everywhere.

Well, for years I’ve been recommending Roboform and even put together a Roboform Tutorial for their great desktop version for Windows and even Mac. Their iPhone app is also in wide circulation, and I think they had a really basic Android app out previously, but for Android users (like me) I’ve got a world exclusive first screenshot of the soon to be released app.

The New Roboform for Android

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Filed Under: Computing, Gadgets, News Tagged With: Android, Computing, Gadgets, News, Passwords, Roboform, Security

Leaking Naked Photos, Crotch Grabbing, and Other TSA Hobbies

January 18, 2011 By John P. 12 Comments

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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Filed Under: News, Security, Thoughts, Travel Tagged With: Airlines, News, Security, Thoughts, Travel, TSA

Tutorial: Password Protect an Entire WordPress Blog

December 27, 2009 By John P. 7 Comments

Recently I had the need to set up a couple of blogs that I only wanted people who are logged in to be able to access. After a little research and experimentation I came across the following fix.

So lets say you wanted to set up a Blog for just the use of your own internal company. Or Family. Or whatever… But you don’t want anyone to be able to access the site unless they are logged in. It’s actually a lot easier than you think. Here’s how to do it.
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Filed Under: Tutorials, Wordpress Tagged With: Passwords, Security, Tutorials, Wordpress

Protect WordPress from Hackers – Secure that Beeotch!

December 3, 2009 By John P. 16 Comments

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, and I’m begging a spammer to show up at my house so I can do horrible things to him!!!! GRRRRR!!!!!

Today I got an email from Google as follows:

Dear site owner or webmaster of onemansblog.com,

While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.

The following is some example hidden text we found at http://onemansblog.com/:

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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from onemansblog.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.

Why, pray tell, would Google ban OneMansBlog from the index? Well, because some sneaky bastard somehow added a bunch of spam to the footer of my blog! HOW? My directory permissions are correct, I have all the latest versions of plugins installed and WordPress is up to date. So, let’s run down a checklist of things you should do so as not to fall victim to the spammers too:
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Filed Under: Security, Wordpress Tagged With: Hackers, Hacking, Rants, Security, Spam, Spammer, Wordpress

Traffic Bollards …or How To Stop a 10 Ton Truck Instantly

November 7, 2008 By John P. 6 Comments

You know those thick concrete poles they put up in front of the doors to shopping centers to keep trucks from doing a smash and grab job by driving through the doors? Wussy! That’s right, those things don’t hold a candle to the ultimate traffic bollards that have now been developed which are essentially giant steel poles!

The video below demonstrates what would happen to a large truck filled with… well, anything you didn’t want to get through if it attempted to actually barrel it’s way on through one of the moveable barricades. It is absolutely devastating. Check it out…
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Filed Under: Vehicles, Videos Tagged With: Cool, Security, Vehicles, Videos

The M134 Dillon Gatling Gun is One Scary Weapon

June 27, 2008 By John P. 9 Comments

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. 3,000 rounds per minute is an awesome weapon!
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Filed Under: Politics, Security, Videos Tagged With: Gatling, Gun, Jesse James, Politics, Richard Machowicz, Security, TV, Videos, Weapon

One Man’s Weekly Links – June 20, 2008

June 20, 2008 By John P. 3 Comments

Been a while since I’ve handed out a list of links for you guys, but this week I’ve got some good ones, so have fun with this!

The first one not to miss is the UniQlock. And here it is in action. Mesmerizing. By the way, the girls in the clock do different things at different times of day! So you have to come back and check it out at night, in the morning, evening, etc.
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Filed Under: Politics, Travel, Web Links Tagged With: Airlines, China, Cool, Free-Speech, freedom, Neal Campbell, Screensaver, Security, Smoking, Travel, Weekly-Links, Wii

Iron Mountain – The Most Secure Civilian Facility IN Earth

May 14, 2008 By John P. 5 Comments

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 USA.

It has been in operation since 1950, and it is here that Bill Gates stores his Corbis photographic collection in a refrigerated cave 220 feet underground.
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Filed Under: Security, Videos Tagged With: Banks, Bill Gates, Cave, Cool, Iron Mountain, Military, Security, Vault, Videos

Tutorial: How-to Recover Windows Login Passwords

January 7, 2008 By John P. 14 Comments

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 ROM.

Now, if there is any good news – people are constantly locking themselves out of their personal laptops and home computers by forgetting the password. And recently I’ve had two different friends do this within a period of a couple of days. So you guys know how this works… when I start getting requests, I document the solution.
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Filed Under: Security, Videos Tagged With: freeware, Hacking, Passwords, Security, Tutorial, Videos