Archive for the ‘Technology and Computers’ Category

A blast of cold air compromises national security

It seems that researchers at Princeton have discovered you can hack into an encrypted hard drive by blasting the computer’s RAM with cold air. It seems that memory which has been treated with some cold air will retain data even after the power is removed from it.

In case you’re not familiar with RAM it is [...]

How to get a free computer

Day in and day out people ask me if I can get them a “cheap” computer. It’s taken a while, but I’ve figured out what they actually want is a FREE computer. I came to this conclusion because anytime you mentioned a really good deal on a computer that you have seen they start twitching [...]

K9 Web Protection: Content filtering

If you have teens and a computer then you’ve undoubtedly dealt with porn. Or perhaps you just “deal with porn”, but aren’t to successful. In either event you should try out a program called K9 Web Protection. It is a free content filter for your home (and office if you do it right) computer(s) made [...]