sxa's Technical Musings

[Short link to this article if you need it - http://goo.gl/Id4dW - or retweet me ] Let me start by saying I'm a big supporter of the Raspberry Pi project and have been following it with a lot of anticipation for a while, and I love the goals of this project and what they've done so far. Technically I think it's brilliant. However I'm afraid to say that the release of the first batch of devices to the public hasn't really gone as expected. It's also worth pointing you at the OSNews article which is very positive to the company, and less so to the two distributors. They had said earlier in the week that they were going to make an announcement at 0600 GMT today (29th February 2012) and indeed they did - they changed to a static page (which stayed up - yay!) telling people that two distributors, the well known RS Components (Current Pi link is here ) and Farnell Electronics (link here ) were going to be shipping the first batch of 10,000 model B boards between th

[Short link to this article if you need it - http:// goo.gl/uJWKM - or retweet me ] Since this is " Safer internet day ", one thing that always surprises me is how many people use their cards online without properly understanding and appreciating the implications of security and encryption online. I've mentioned issues with SecureCode/VerifiedByVisa before and a lot of people don't even do security well enough to get to the issues I mention. Let's take one example of SSL certificates. What would most people do when they see things like this dialog? I suspect most end users would just try and find the most effective way to dismiss the dialog i.e. accept the invalid certificate - and firefox doesn't help by having the "always accept this certificate" checkbox selected by default.. Which is exaclty the sort of thing that leaves you open to talking to a different server from the one you think you are. How many people would actually know enough to even