Archive for July, 2012

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Jul31

New Sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure

by nirik on 2012/07/31 at 8:19 am
Posted In: fedora, linux

Folks who access fedoraproject.org resources may have noticed in the last week that things have become a bit faster. The reason for this is simple: We have a new sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure! I’d like to welcome Colocation America to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Jul29

Android device encryption

by nirik on 2012/07/29 at 9:34 am
Posted In: fedora, linux

Last night I played around with the device encryption on my nexus 7. First of all, android uses dm_crypt, just like a Fedora install would. cryptsetup however is not used, android has it’s own interface to the kernel for doing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul24

A short rant about ‘security questions’

by nirik on 2012/07/24 at 1:49 pm
Posted In: fedora, linux

It seems like many places are now setting up or making people use ‘security questions’. These are questions (and answers) that can be used to verify your identity in the event that your password is forgotten or are otherwise locked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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