2012.02.07
How to Decrypt "Secrets for Android" Files
Secrets for Android
is a nifty Android application that allows you to securely store
passwords and other sensitive data on your Android phone.
Your data are encoded with your supplied password using strong
cryptography and are therefore protected if your phone gets stolen.
Although the application offers a backup and an export facility,
I found both wanting in terms of the availability and confidentiality
associated with their use.
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2011.12.17
Advice from Successful Greek IT Startups
Members of the
Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies
and the
Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association,
assorted biotechnology companies, and representatives from
Greek and US-based venture capital funds gathered on Friday
December 17, 2011 in a meeting
to exchange advice, tips, and war stories on venturing abroad.
It was one of the most inspiring meetings I've attended for some time.
These are my notes from the meeting.
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2011.12.14
Apps are the New Users
Some facilities provided by mature multi-user operating systems appear arcane today. Administrators of computers running Mac OS X or Linux can see users logged-in from remote terminals, they can specify limits on the disk space one can use, and they can run accounting statistics to see how much CPU time or disk I/O a user has consumed over a month. These operating systems also offer facilities to group users together, to specify various protection levels for each user's files, and to prescribe which commands a user can run.
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