Today I Learned

The plaque above was my father’s. I saw it almost every day of my life when I lived with my parents, and it’s now in my home. (I also...

For anyone not familiar with it, Mind Your Language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language ) was a British sitcom running in...

After commenting ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu ) on how useful my prior familiarity with the C programming...

Today, I experienced déjà vu about déjà vu. How cool is that? I was going through Dani Krossing’s ( https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChar...

More, actually, but not with Sgt. Pepper... When I got my first coding job, in the 1990’s, I was working through a certificate in...

In his classic series, Martial Arts and Ways of Japan (Weatherhill, 3 volumes, 1973–1974), Donn Draeger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

#TIL that the falling green code seen in the Matrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise )) movies is sometimes referred...

I have a confession to make... While I have worked in the Information Technology (IT) field for over twenty years, I am not a web...

Multi-factor Authentication, or “MFA”, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication ) can be quite confusing, but I think...

Cryptography makes the world go ‘round. With apologies to Broadway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Makes_the_World_Go_%27Round_%28...

“Zero-day” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29 ) or “0-day” (also pronounced “oh-day”), is another term that we hear...

When considering the term “dark web”, I had trouble deciding whether to post under InfoSec Basics or InfoSec Bullshido. On the one hand,...

Now that we know a bit about hashing ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/infosec-basics-hashing ) and passwords (...

Everyone knows what passwords are, and how they work. Right? The basic concept is simple enough, and has been around for quite a long...

Every field has basic concepts that are essential to real understanding of the field. In the context of Information Security, “hashing”...