I've been working on some components of Utopiaprojekt this morning and run across the idea of sending the contents of the clipboard across the internet. So, after tooling around for a few minutes, I wrote up a working example using Python on OS X. So, click on Read More for more information on how I [...]

Introduction This is an old-ish app that I've been sitting on over the past few months and thought I should release it before it joins my BPOUS (Big Pile Of Unpublished Stuff) on a random hard drive somewhere. Echo.py is a one trick pony. It tails a (configurable) log file on the system and sends [...]

Like all really interesting ideas I come up with and want to follow up on, this one happened last thing on a Sunday night when I'm at my sleepiest. Basic tenet is that transmitting credit card information across the internet for offsite processing is a huge security concern. The fix is, don't send it at [...]

Earlier today, I was searching today for some article or advice on how best to provide security and courtesy at the same time. I was somewhat startled to find that virtually no one – no one – is writing about the topic. In a security-conscious world, we seem to have forgotten that ultimately, security serves [...]