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You’re gonna carry that weight

It’s hard for me to believe this is my final issue of The Stute. I was a member of The Stute before I was a student at Stevens; I first explored campus and Hoboken as part of The Stute’s Freshman Weekend.

Anachronistic security compromised with heuristics

Fortunately, no one emailed me passwords after reading my column two weeks back. Unfortunately, organizations that hold huge amounts of user information are doing a bad job securing it.

Burr-Feinstein BS

In my last column I said I’d talk more about passwords, but unfortunately I have to postpone that discussion in the interest of covering current events.

CNBC and the password strength checker of doom

Last week, CNBC ran a piece on how to choose secure passwords. To supplement their article, they included a tool to test how strong your password is.

A decade of horse armor

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had its 10th birthday over spring break. Bethesda Game Studios’ followup to their 2002 Morrowind introduced voiced characters and brought greater balance between combat styles (as well as removing spears, never to be seen again).

DROWNing in weak crypto

Until 2000, restrictions were placed on cryptographic products developed in the US. Throughout the Cold War, encryption technology (techniques, equipment, and software) was classified as “Materials and Miscellaneous Articles” on the United States Munitions List.

There is no “opt out”

You might think you’re safe from tracking by the likes of Google and Facebook if you don’t have an account with these companies, but new advances in technology are making it impossible to escape their reach.

A backdoor for “us” is a backdoor for “them”

Last March, China’s National People’s Congress wrote a draft for an anti-terrorism bill that required companies to implement encryption backdoors. A spokeswoman from the Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted that the bill was “a requirement for the government in combating terrorism.”

Blocking ad blocker blockers

In December, Forbes began requiring readers with ad-blocking extensions to disable them in order to view pages. Visitors were greeted with a message: “Thanks for coming to Forbes.

If I could block $1.5 billion in ads

This past weekend I was at a party for Super Bowl 50. A football game has four 15-minute quarters (and for the Super Bowl, a 30-minute halftime show).