5/04/2009
Over time, Microsoft has increased the importance of security in their pecking order, but Microsoft Excel’s password protection is still rather lack-luster. A few days ago, a co-worker had asked me for help in recovering a password she had forgotten for an old Excel spreadsheet. Luckily, this can be done with absolutely no additional software.
This routine provides a password to unprotect your worksheet. However, it may not give you the original password that was used. Read the rest of this article »
19/09/2008
Wired just had an interesting post about airport security. We know that they check our shoes and make us throw out our toothpaste for our own good, but is it actually stopping terrorists? Read the rest of this article »
9/05/2008
Read an interesting article about security and its economic and social impact over at the Washington Post today. Here’s How America Looks to the World
Some years ago, I received a terror threat. If I did not apologize publicly and profusely for a column that blasted the Iranian regime, I would be killed by Friday, Sept. 13 — what an auspicious date! So I sent for the security experts, and this is what they told me: Your front and back doors are worthless; get armored ones. Order bulletproof windows. Build a safe room. Install panic buttons. Get rid of that silly chicken-wire fence and put in a steel and concrete one. Don’t use the driveway; try to vary your access routes (which, I think, meant sneaking home through the neighbors’ gardens). Pretty soon, we were talking six-figure costs and contemplating emigration to Iceland.