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Sometimes It Seems Like Unix(*) Needs to Learn from Windows

(*) By “Unix”, I mean Linux, Unix, AIX, OS/X, and similar flavours. Way back when, about twenty or so years ago, I was a Unix admin, and a Unix developer. I had to be both, because I was the only person in the company who could spell Unix...

In Defence of the Self-Signed Certificate

Recently I discussed using EFS as a simple, yet reliable, form of file encryption. Among the doubts raised was the following from an article by fellow MVP Deb Shinder on EFS: EFS generates a self-signed certificate. However, there are problems inherent...