How Jeroen Zomer sees IT

A secure blanket

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in work | No Comments »

You shouldn't trust the Internet. It is dangerous and because most people do not fully comprehend the technology and inner workings, it is hard to understand how and when you are in danger. And yet, as we become more and ...

unstash in Java

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in work | 7 Comments »

It has been ten years ago - 1999 - since the (in)famous unstash-script came out. It was a cryptic PERL script, which could read IBM's stash files and deliver you the 'encrypted' password. I was in need of the script, as ...

Passwords are not safe

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted in work | No Comments »

I was recently confronted with a new password policy: my password needed to be a combination of 8 to 12 characters with only numbers and letters. And the numbers were not allowed to be at the beginning or end. My ...