In searching the web this morning I ran into this site: http://www.readprint.com/, which has several classic works available for reading/download online. Very clean looking site as well. I like the style.
I am struggling tonight (well early this morning). I am trying to decide on a good topic for the security class I am taking at St. Thomas. My three favorite areas might be:
1. jabber/im security
2. md5 thirdparty jar trust testing within web applications
3. intrusion detection software
I think that with respects to Jabber, I know I could probably set up some kind of interface that looks at having a secure tip-to-tail client experience. IM clients today typically transmit in cleartext, and persist records of conversations similarly. Using PGP, digital signatures, and encryption of the stored message history, I think that I could demonstrate the case for a secure IM situation. For instance, now a criminal could simpley get the cleartext off your machine rather than intercept all of the individual messages.
This article suggests an approach called Off-the-Record for implementing signed IM transfers.
This article discusses using emails for the keys, similarly the user's jabber id could be used for this purpose.
Jive is a new server that runs on XMPP.
It's been a while since I've bought something from Apple. The way their user interface has gone, to me seems to be counter-productive. It seems less user-friendly than the classic+color interface of OS8.5-9.0.
I never liked associating icons instead of program names. I feel you need both, and in the new OS X experience, it seems like you are forced to hover over everything in order to see what it really represents.
I did like the iPod Shuffle though. Although I would have preferred an electronic device that has a display similar to the scope and text that you see in the WinAmp software, but those devices usually cost way more than I am willing to pay for a glorified Walkman replacement.
The iPod shuffle is a pretty sweet, simple device that gives me more USB drive space than I paid for my USB stick drive a year ago. My old drive has only 1/10 the capacity and 1/2 the price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle, but it doesn't have the ability to play songs. Other manufacturer's players look like they would not plug directly into a usb drive, which means more cables. I hate having more cables on my physical desktop.