➠ February 22, 2007
Tumblr
Attractive lightweight simplistic blogging tool. “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.”
Toothpaste For Dinner blog: My adventures in Second Life
Heh. Glad to see I’m not the only one trying to understand the draw of Second Life.
prooveme.com: strong authentication for openid
OpenID provider which uses SSL client certificates, not passwords, to authenticate. Doesn’t work terribly well (I haven’t successfully logged in anywhere with it!), but a clever idea for an unphishable OpenID. [Update: I’ve got it working a couple of places now. Not clear at whose end the remaining bugs lie.]
Schneier on Security: CYA Security
I U+2665 Bruce Schneier. “Much of our country’s counterterrorism security spending is not designed to protect us from the terrorists, but instead to protect our public officials from criticism when another attack occurs.”