Archive for March, 2009



While reading a post on how current anti-virus solutions are starting to become complete inefficient and even reporting false positives, a few thoughts came to my mind.
The first one is that I’ve been running with no anti-virus on my computers for more than 8 years now. The use of low-risk platforms, like UNIX-based systems, and [...]

It is probably not very well-known for many, and probably ignored by most, but it seems that Mac OS X and specifically Safari leaves much to be desired when talking about security.
During the Pwn2Own contest, Safari was the first browser to fall, in the order of seconds, when put under attack by Charlie Miller. This [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while how to properly keep back-ups of all of my data while, at the same time, saving a few bucks. Since the “cloud computing” term is now floating all over the Internet, I thought that a distributed, remote back-up service might do the work for me.
I looked around and found [...]