Passwords are used everywhere in our modern life. Between your email account and your bank card, a lot of critical security infrastructure relies on "something you know", a password. Yet there is little standard documentation on how to generate good passwords. There are some interesting possibilities for doing so; this article will look at what makes a good password and some tools that can be used to generate them.
Imagine you’re at a border crossing, and the guard asks you to hand over all of your electronics for screening. The guard then asks that you unlock your device, provide passwords and decryption keys. Right now, he’s asking nicely, but he happens to be carrying an unpleasant-looking rubber hose, Yes, cryptographers actually do call this “rubber hose cryptanalysis.” and appears to be willing to use it. Now imagine you’re a journalist covering war crimes in the country you’re trying to leave. So, what can you do?
Le journaliste Jean-Hugues Roy a écrit un article qui documente les commandes de base utiles dans un terminal. Applicable aux plateformes Linux et OSX (macOS) en plus de Windows 10 avec le shell Bash.
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. At it’s core, it is an internet standard (called OpenPGP) used for data encryption and digital signatures. Software that employs this standard is available in both a free, open source version produced by the Free Software Foundation called the GNU Privacy Guard (or GPG for short) as well as a low-cost commercial version.
People often say that online behavior would improve if every comment system forced people to use their real names. It sounds like it should be true – surely nobody would say mean things if they faced consequences for their actions?
Vous êtes cordialement invité à participer à la 12ème Assemblée générale annuelle du Réseau Koumbit, le lundi 5 décembre 2016, dès 18h00 pour un petit buffet et discussions informelles. Cet évènement permet aux membres et sympathisant-e-s de Koumbit de prendre connaissance des développements de la dernière année et d'influencer ceux qui sont à venir.
The goal of the WSF 2016 is to gather tens of thousands of people from groups in civil society, organizations and social movements who want to build a sustainable and inclusive world, where every person and every people has its place and can make its voice heard.
Koumbit will be at the conference Sortir du capitalisme which will take place on April 9th at Concordia University. We will present the history of our organisation, the impact we have in our community, the different practices of self-governance we put in developed through the years and the challenges we face as a horizontally managed organisation.
More information on the official site for the conference.
The Ladies Learning Code will host a projection of the documentary CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap on March 31st at the Montreal offices of Google. Several people from Koumbit will attend in order to learn more about this important problem of the tech world: the lack of women.
More information on the event site.
Koumbit sera présent!
But : Le Colloque libre, organisé par l’Adte, vise à partager des expériences concrètes et des réflexions sur le logiciel libre dans l'enseignement supérieur, afin de promouvoir son utilisation dans l'enseignement et l'apprentissage.
Pourquoi y participer ? : Pour bénéficier d’une concentration d’expertise unique, grâce à Richard Stallman et à des conférencières et conférenciers issus de collèges, d’universités, d’entreprises du libre et d'organismes qui feront de ce colloque une journée enrichissante et mémorable.
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