I missed last week because I was having fun up in Canada... mostly without any kind of computer access at all.  It was a nice break, but now I'm back in the thick of things again.  So this week, I am going to try to beef it up a bit to compensate for last week's missing entry. =================================== DELETE vs. DROP I ...

According to this paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), social security numbers (SSNs) are pretty easy for hackers, identity thieves, and other miscreants to predict based on publicly available data. I found this interesting partly because I just recently (a few months ago) wrote a chapter for a book ...