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Kettling Wikileaks | DefectiveByDesign.org : "Kettling Wikileaks POSTED ON: FRI, 2010-12-17 09:09 BY PETERB This article provides an important back story to our DRM campaign. Here at DefectiveByDesign we try to give our readers the bigger picture of how DRM is a threat to society's freedom: it's more than just about access to music and movies. ('Kettling' refers to the police tactic of surrounding a large group of protestors in the middle of a protest and keeping them under siege for hours.) This is a longer version than the version published by the Guardian ."

Re-reading old blog posts and other information on passwords and password cracks. Now I don't want to crack passwords, But I do very much want to know what is out there so that I can try and protect myself from them. Here are some interesting articles on passwords and what you who thought you were so clever, should now see that you are not too clever at all. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0612.html#2 http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/12/72300 more password stuff http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0701.html#15 Cisco Password stuff http://ioshints.blogspot.com/2007/11/type-7-decryption-in-cisco-ios.html http://ioshints.blogspot.com/2007/11/enable-password-or-enable-secret.html Microsofts page to better passwords http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/create.mspx and Finally Steve Gibson's Password Generator to help you come up with some funky password that you will not remember but be safe from the bad Guys.