I’ve been communicating with some new contacts lately. Or, more to the point, I should say I’ve been renewing some contacts with former aquaintences of mine from high school. It’s been a humbling yet exhilirating experience. Almost twenty years have passed since I graduated from the hallowed halls of South Dade Senior High. It’s time to take a walk back in time.
Yeah, I probably should have kept up with them, but life happens. Life before the internet, anyhow.
I just want to say “hey” to anyone who swings by here as a result of my link on the SDHS Class of ‘88 site. Welcome to my little corner of the world.
This week at work, we had an Information Technology security conference. The US Secret Service was kind enough to send one of their Cybercrime unit specialists to talk to us about Identity Theft.
It reminded me that I hadn’t changed my passwords in… months.
So, now, because I have the tool that I downloaded from http://www.keepass.info, I feel confident telling you that I now have 55 different passwords of varying strengths, and I don’t know any of them. I don’t need to. The tool remembers them for me, types them for me, and keeps them encrypted whenever they are resident in memory or on the hard disk. And if you don’t have my master password (good luck guessing it) and the key file (good luck getting that, too), chances are you won’t be able to decrypt any of them.
A friend of mine who works for a non-profit in the education sector has turned me on to a prediction market that her organization has set up for demonstration purposes. This prediction market acts like a stock market, only the questions being bet on are much more interesting than the price of a company.
I recommend you visit it at http://markets.nitle.org/.
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