Today's complicated word is…

Glossary of Cryptographic Terms: Steganography – the process of hiding data inside other data. For example, a text file could be hidden “inside” an image or a sound file. By looking at the image, or listening to the sound, you would not know that there is extra information present. Think “hiding in plain sight.”

Words of One Syllable Dept. (horror story edition)

‘I just bought your hard drive’ – The Red Tape Chronicles – MSNBC.com: One year ago, Hank Gerbus had his hard drive replaced at a Best Buy store in Cincinnati. Six months ago, he received one of the most disturbing phone calls of his life. “Mr. Gerbus,” Gerbus recalls a stranger named Ed telling him. Continue reading Words of One Syllable Dept. (horror story edition)

Mu.Nu problems

Just was checking a few of my favorite .mu.nu blogs, and they don’t come up. “The server stopped responding,” Safari tells me. I’d read on Ace of Spades HQ that the .mu.nu servers themselves had been under attack, but that Pixy Misa, who runs the place, was trying fixes. So, now I’m worried, since the Continue reading Mu.Nu problems