The 06th March is the day that the Michelangelo virus (a virus I came across back in the early nineties) would overwrite disk sectors, and it apparently caused quite a frenzy back in January 1992. I was thinking, here we are 25 years later, and what have we done? (Look out — this is another one of my non-technical posts!) Continue Reading
A False Sense of Security
I always cringe when I hear people telling others to ‘just accept the certificate’ when their browser warns them that it is invalid, so I’m going to attempt to use a Billy Joel song and an old TV commercial asking if you’ve ‘ever hired a movie that just wasn’t quite ‘right’, to attempt to explain what browser certificate warnings actually mean and why accepting an invalid certificate could cast rather a gloom over the evening. Continue Reading