Posts by Uncle Siggy

Star Trek to boldly go (again)

Negative Universe Borg

I vote for the opposite Star Trek to be the baddies, where the Borg are the heroes. The movie would be about the Enterprise and her crew seeking to destroy the Borg because... oh, wait a tick.

Scammers scrape RAM for bank card data

security through obscurity = fail

Kerckhoff's principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_principle

I would have given you a Paris if she'd known what cryptography meant.

For the record and with rare exceptions every lock has a keyhole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_picking

Pretending that you can fool a locksmith or thief into believing that a lock hasn't got a hole (when it does), is like proffering a BBQ'd t-bone to a rutting bull.

Lost mobiles to pile up in taxis in run up to Xmas

In the spirit of the season...

@Lars Don't you mean St. Nokialaus?