News
2008/10/05 |
We have added another much needed blog,Thought Snippets is a brain dump for notes about workarounds, missing information, and other assorted discoveries, made in the course of the software development activities of the Chief Wizard.
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Thought Snippets is David Gray's personal blog on matters of personal security and privacy in the wired world. (Added 05 October 2008)
2008/09/30 |
We've made a few important additions and improvements.
- Wired Wisdom is my new place for writing about personal security and privacy in the wired world.
- VirusWarn is the new archive for the VirusWarn bulletins that Lee Drake, Brett Rabideau, Mr. Nick Francesco, and I started about a decade ago.
- Our Useful Links page features several new links, and a new section, Newsletters, and the obsolete and dead links are gone.
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