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There's also an app (for Android, at least) that provides authenticator codes. That way you don't need cell reception to get a text message.
Commented Apr 18, 2012 on Make Your Email Hacker Proof at Coding Horror
Make Your Email Hacker Proof
It's only a matter of time until your email gets hacked. Don't believe me? Just read this harrowing cautionary tale. When [my wife] came back to her desk, half an hour later, she couldn’t log into Gmail at all. By that time, I was up and looking at e‑mail, and we both quickly saw what the re...
I'd love to use pass phrases...
Except my bank only allows a maximum of 16 characters for a password.
And even better, they require security questions, which I can't just fill with garbage; every time I log in, I need to answer a random security question. So I need to either keep the security question answers honest so I can remember them or write them down somewhere.
Commented Apr 6, 2012 on Speed Hashing at Coding Horror
Speed Hashing
Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the...
I consider the iPhone the single most insidious piece of technology in human history.
It's single-handedly gotten everyone comfortable with the idea of walled gardens and not having complete control of their hardware.
I pray that whoever takes over next won't be nearly as successful at selling gilded cages as Jobs was.
Commented Oct 16, 2011 on Serving at the Pleasure of the King at Coding Horror
Serving at the Pleasure of the King
I enjoy my iPhone tremendously; I think it's the most important product Apple has ever created and one they were born to make. As a consumer who has waited far too long for the phone industry to get the swift kick in the ass it so richly deserved, I'm entirely on Apple's side here. But as a so...
Kevin: Those would be called scooters here as well (or, with equal frequency, motor scooters).
Commented Jun 10, 2011 on Geek Transportation Systems at Coding Horror
Geek Transportation Systems
On my first visit to the Fog Creek Software offices in 2008, I was surprised to see programmers zooming around the office on scooters. I didn't realize that scooters were something geeks would be into, but it sure looked like fun, albeit borderline dangerous fun, on the 25th floor of an office ...
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