Users with sensitive data might find it comforting to use disk encryption in order to prevent it to fall in the wrong hands, especially when this data is stored on a laptop. Hovewer, a new research shows that it might be relatively simple to recover the encryption keys for at least three popular products (BitLocker, …
You know you’re living in the 21st century…
…when it’s Sunday evening and suddenly lights go off. You go check the switchboard, but the safeguard refuses to stay on. You go everywhere in the house unplugging everything and try again: the safeguard still switches power off. You give in, and dine with candle light, thinking “bugger, I can’t read my emails!”. 😉 …eventually, …
Another step towards an IPv6 Internet
Today IANA added the first AAAA records for six of the thirtheen authoritative DNS servers that carry the root zone. In short, this means that as of today one would be able to wander across the Internet without having anything to do with IPv4. Too bad that virtually no ISP is ready to provide IPv6 …
LogMiner: purging old accesses
I’ve just committed a function to easily purge old data from LogMiner’s database, useful to prevent it from growing too much. It’ll appear in the next version, but since its release might still be far from now, here’s the code for those who need it: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION cleanup( _site int8, _upToDate DATE ) …
PHP templates
When you design a complex application, it’s always useful to separate the presentation layer from the business logic. Usually, when dealing with web apps, this involves handing templates which are “filled” with data by your controller. The common rationale is that the template should contain as little logic as possible and that it should be …