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Author Archives: Douglass Clem
An Email Encryption Guide
“We cannot rely on laws to protect us. We must use mathematics.”
- Bruce Schneier
The ability to have a private conversation via email is vital. Yet due to the nature of both email and the underlying technology, most emails are far from private. Privacy can be achieved via encryption, but the truly secure forms of encryption [...]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
As I mentioned in a previous post, I had slight reservations about upgrading this site to WordPress 2.6, due to the fact that some people had problems with non-standard permalinks. I even encountered this problem myself, when upgrading a blog that I run on a VirtualBox test server.
However, it was just past 12 a.m., and [...]
WordPress 2.6 released a month early!
I’m both surprised and exited to see that WordPress 2.6 has been released almost a month ahead of time. By far the feature I’m most exited about is post revisions, which gives WP content wiki like revision history. This should be very useful for multi-author blogs and sites. Another interesting feature is integrating Google Gears [...]
1984, Knocking on your door!
This is not an endorsement of Ralph Nader, as I believe that Chuck Baldwin would make for a better president. However, this is a really good campaign video, which I think everyone should watch.
