The ancient art of password cracking has advanced further in the past five years than it did in the previous several decades combined. At the same time, the dangerous practice of password reuse has surged. The result: security provided by the average password in 2012 has never been weaker. Has the art of password cracking […]

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the first thing to understand when dealing with any matter of copy right laws is to understand the laws themselves. The first half of this video has a basic explanation of copy right law and fair use. As for fair use, portions of copyrighted material can be used for Criticism, comment, news reporting Teaching (including […]

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After reading the two articles and seeing some of the videos, I have to say that copyright law is overly ambiguous. Does something fall under teh fair use doctrine? How much is too much? When should you ask for permission? Then there’s the fact that if you do ask for permission, many sources and people […]

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This website does a good job explaining how to adequately evaluate a website for authority and accuracy. However, it makes a few flaws. For one, going by solely a domain name can be disastrous. For example, I have had teachers in the past say, “Don’t use .com websites because these are controlled by commercial interests.” […]

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In reference to how Urlich Keller believes that the OFF photo was taken first and the ON photo second, he says, “The other way around, I don’t know why anyone would do that. I don’t think it’s likely.” But this doesn’t make sense to me. Wouldn’t it make sense to take the balls off the […]

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For the public school teacher’s labor dispute, I assumed it would be pretty easy to find information on it. I went to proquest historical newspapers, clicked on the New York Times, and searched “public school teachers labor dispute.” Immediately I was greeted by a host of articles that I feel would meet the requirement of […]

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Given that the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that occured on 9/11 is just a couple days away, I thought I’d check the databases for information on what I could find. My first thoughts on the website was the simplicity of it. There was a list of newspapers to choose from, you click on one, […]

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The past was analog. The future is digital. Tomorrow’s historians will glory in a largely digital historical record, which will transform the way they research, present, and even preserve the past. But what can today’s historians do with the massive analog historical record of the past millennia? Up until now we have primarily focused on […]

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The idea that webpages are indistinguishable is interesting. I suppose distinguishing one history page from another could be hard, but distinguishing a scholarly website from an entertainment website is easy. Take this gaming news website for an example, and compare it to the Library of Congress. They clearly have a different feel to them – one […]

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On the one hand it’s very intriguing that, as the internet was first coming forth, there was such great hope. Wired publisher Louis Rossetto links the digital revolution to “social changes so profound that their only parallel is probably the discovery of fire.” While I’m not sure if I’d agree it’s as important as the […]

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