Posted by admin on July 27, 2008
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 [...]
Posted by admin on July 24, 2008
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I've been sitting on over the past few months and thought I should release it before it joins my BPOUS (Big Pile Of Unpublished Stuff) on a random hard drive somewhere.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 [...]
Posted by admin on July 13, 2008
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 [...]
Posted by admin on July 11, 2008
Posted by admin on July 9, 2008
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 [...]