Category Archives: General

B92 Blog

During last October (2010), after more than 5 years of blogging on this blog Dragan on Security, I started to write also on B92 blog, one of the most popular web sites in Serbia. You can read my texts on … Continue reading

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Senior Member at ACM

I received Senior Member Grade at ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Senior Members 2010 list is here. The Senior Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership … Continue reading

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New WordPress Version and Theme

This blog has new look now. With change to the newest version of WordPress 3.0, I decided to change theme as well. As with every new thing, it will need some time to fine tune all small bits, plug-ins and other details. I hope you’ll like this theme even more than previous and continue to read my blog as before. Continue reading

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Bruce Schneier in Reason Magazine

Interesting interview: Safe, But Also Sorry: Security expert Bruce Schneier talks about privacy and property in the information state – Reason Magazine. Citation: Reason: In Schneier on Security, you emphasize that technology isn’t the only (or even the most important … Continue reading

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Edgios or will new Google come from Serbia!?

Edgios is a large-scale distributed search ‘cloud’ that offers higher-quality search results. Users participate in the cloud by downloading the Edgios personal search software, and connecting that software to the net. Continue reading

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Will crisis in financial sector affect tech and security?

Financial crisis is going to overflow from financial sector to real sector. It can result in slowdown and less spending for technology, higher unemployment rate etc. Results also can be in growth in the use of open source, cloud computing … Continue reading

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We Are Sorry to Inform You

We Are Sorry to Inform You - about rejected papers of famous researchers. Also interesting: “Once upon a time there was a little-known patent clerk in Bern who received a disappointing annual performance review in ’05 – Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein“. … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 has been released. From a security perspective, the new WordPress release 2.5 promises many improvements: secure cookie management, salted passwords, password strength meter and prepared SQL querying functions etc. It also supports Automatic Upgrade feature and WordPress Automatic … Continue reading

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Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More

This article is… a funny: Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More – New York Times. It says: The world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which … Continue reading

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ASUS Eee PC – New Toy

This is non security post on my security blog. :) I have bought an ASUS Eee PC recently. When I saw that subnotebook for the first time, I simply thought it was one of those stupid toys. But after I had … Continue reading

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