March 2012 archive

Equifax sends passwords insecurely in plain text leading to potential identity theft

The credit bureau Equifax claims to take various precautions regarding their customers’ personal information, and attempts to combat identity theft. However, if you ever need to contact their customer service for any reason (being locked out of your account, resetting your password, et cetera), they will send you your password in plain text. You might …

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Goodbye Aristotle

Today, I am retiring one of my previous servers, Aristotle. It has been a good machine, but I no longer need it because it has been replaced by a newer machine in a different datacentre. It had a good run of a couple years, with a nice uptime: bsbc-aristotle aristotleadmin # w 18:22:34 up 475 …

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Tony Pugliese and Alex Mancuso on North Carolina’s proposed gay marriage ban

Today on the North Carolina news station WRAL-5, my cousin Anthony Pugliese and his partner, Alex Mancuso, were interviewed regarding the proposed amendment to ban gay marriage across the state. The amendment is set to be on the ballot on 08 May 2012, and currently, it seems like there are many more individuals who favour …

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