Sociable! Facebook Connect WordPress plugin

Something’s stinky in Denmark.

Update 1 below.

Update 2: Looks like one of (the?) author(s) over at Sociable! is here, commenting. Cool! Based on his comments, I’m updating the post. Essentially, the login is now in a URI-showing pop-up window (good), but without SSL (still not sure why).

Update 3: I’ve been doing some reading on Facebook’s developer [...]

Security/Privacy – Disk/File wiping not nearly as rigorous as I was led to believe

Just a short update.

It turns out that even the venerable Peter Guttman (who proposed in 1996 or so that we use a 35-pass wipe according to a strict algorithm to protect our old/deleted data) thinks that with today’s storage and recovery technologies, only a few passes are now needed to protect us from snooping.

I used [...]

“Identify yourself, no?”

“Pinky Carruthuers. Blue-Blaze Irregular.”

I apologize, but it’s been a long time since I created this blog – long enough that I’ve forgotten who y’all are. If you came over from LJ, Welcome! and I’ve already added you to appropriate viewing groups based on your username. But if you created a user name that’s not obviously [...]

Started posting protected content on my WordPress blog

So if you’re reading and interested, you’ll need to register or login to read those posts on the site.

Not entirely sure I like the post locking tech that is User Permissions for my purposes

This is about the WordPress plug-in User Permissions, which works great from the point of view of organizing users so they can all collaborate at different permissions levels on the same blog, but is clearly not written or designed to facilitate different users’ varying access levels to a single blog/journal that is written by a [...]