Monthly Archives: December 2015

The $90,000 Laptop

Posted on December 14, 2015 by way0utwest

A hospital got the opportunity to pay $90k for a lost laptop. There’s no excuse for this. If you have a Windows laptop, enable bitlocker today. If you have OSX, setup FileVault. If you’re on Linux, choose dm_crypt or something else. Go ahead, get that … Continue reading →

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Graduation – An Exciting Day

Posted on December 12, 2015 by way0utwest

It’s quite an exciting day for me today. My oldest son graduated college this morning, finishing his Bachelor’s degree and beginning the next phase of his life. I’m quite proud of him and just wanted to put a few memories … Continue reading →

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Security Decisions

Posted on December 12, 2015 by way0utwest

How many of you have written code that results in a security issue or data breach? It’s possible many of you have, but are unaware of the issues. I’m sure a few of you have been hacked, have had to … Continue reading →

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Advent of Code

Posted on December 11, 2015 by way0utwest

I ran across this site after reading a post from Jeremiah Peschka. It’s an interesting idea, and since I’m trying to improve my development skills in between the rest of my work, I thought this would be fun. Advent of … Continue reading →

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