In a recent article, my favorite electronic evidence blogger, Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., in {ride the lightning} blog writes about how to properly secure a PDF document. In order to properly secure an Adobe document, John [Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises Inc.] advises a ‘two-step’ test. The first step is to apply a password [...]
Archive for June 29, 2009
Securing PDFs
Posted: June 29, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: digital certificate, digital ID, secure PDF documents
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Portrait of the developer as a hacker
Posted: June 29, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: developer, hacker, hacker ethic, outsourcing, software engineer
Throughout my career as a software engineer and all around code monkey, I have been both denounced and applauded as a “hacker”. In my current position, it is part of my duties to “think like a hacker”. Clearly there is a lot of confusion surrounding the term hacker. Wikipedia has these definitions. Hacker (computer security), [...]
