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Last week I was in Catania, Sicily and managed to miss one thing I would have loved to see. A volcanic eruption… I only learned of it when I got back and people asked about it. On the 14th of June Sunny and myself took a train ride around Etna on a narrow gauge diesel train line linking small villages based near Etna, called Ferrovia Circumetnea. I actually wanted to go up, however Sunny wasn’t keen on that idea so we stuck to her travel itinerary. The next day it erupted according to news articles I found after people started asking. Seems the airport was also closed during my stay and also today it is closed. Yesterday when we went back all was normal and also on board the plane I didn’t hear anything about the volcano erupting.


Secure passwords

We all know and use secure passwords right, we also know that a password need to be secure and the longer the password is and the more complex the password will enhance its security. The problem is that remembering these passwords is not always that easy until I was listening to a podcast called ‘Security Now’ and somebody with the name Steve Gibson said something about easily rememberable but yet still secure passwords. Read the following link : https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm if you want to know more about this. Essentially now you can create long passwords which are still easy to remember as the attacker has no idea what you’ve used. I still recommend a bit of creativity in your easy but still secure password. Something like ‘##########COFFEE———-‘ might be considered very secure but still can be guessed by somebody looking over your shoulder. The above mentioned password supposedly takes over 6 centuries to guess, while something like ‘W@nD3R!ng’ is guessed within 2 hours. This should start you thinking……..