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Tuesday, 29th January 2008

Since 9/11, approximately three things have potentially improved airline security: reinforcing the cockpit doors, passengers realizing they have to fight back and - possibly - sky marshals. Everything else - all the security measures that affect privacy - is just security theater and a waste of effort.

Bruce Schneier

# 12:14 pm / bruce-schneier, privacy, security, securitytheatre

On the design of the first-run assistant. NetNewsWire’s Brent Simmons explains the in-depth thinking behind the new first-run assistant.

# 12:16 pm / brent-simmons, netnewswire, usability

iTimeMachine. Enables Time Machine to see network drives (a ReadyNAS NV+ for example). There’s also a defaults setting but it didn’t seem to work; this did.

# 11:33 pm / backups, itimemachine, mac, osx, readynas, timemachine