Wordpress by default is very un-search engine friendly. There are many places where content is the same yet the URL is different. Google recognizes this as duplicate content.

Modern search engines like Google penalize for duplicate content. They do this because they want to give credit to the original author and keep spammers or copiers from getting page rank. They also do this to separate actual content and navigation/sidebar/ and other text that is not ranked as higher value. This all helps Google provide better search results. Read more »

After listening to an episode of the Security Now Podcast I was fascinated by the idea of multi-factor authentication. In the perfect paper password episode they discussed using one time passwords that were written on a credit card sized piece of paper. Each time you log in you would have to supply both your password and a pseudo-random one time use password that is on your credit sized perfect paper password card. The next time you logged in you would have to supply the next one time password from the card. When all the passwords are used up you would print another card and start the process over. Read more »

Server Environment Discovery Tool - This is an sweet time saver for knowing what services a server offers.

Feds: We will search through your laptop files at the border - Well this seems crazy to me. If you are traveling abroad you may be subject to search and seizure of your laptop/cellphone data. I’ll quote good ol’ Ben Franklin, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I recommend using a program like truecrypt for whole drive encryption. I think it would also be fun to write over the “blank spots” of your hard drive with Rick Astley videos. Read more »