Grounded - geerdet, erdgebunden. Mein Name ist Olaf Kock, Softwareentwickler und Gleitschirmflieger aus Hamburg - daher mit nicht allzu vielen Fluggelegenheiten in unmittelbarer Umgebung. (mehr...)

Software developer, "would-be" Paraglider from Hamburg/Germany - a flat part of this planet with sparse flying opportunity nearby - thus grounded... (more...)

• abstrakt gmbh
• Brockmann Consult GmbH
• Business Continuity Podcast
• Controll-IT GmbH
• OpenSTA
• Pebble
• AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung
• Aktion gegen Softwarepatente
• XPUG-Hamburg

• TNO - Trust No One.
  First of all:This is not a security analysis, and no statement about the actual security of firefox sync. It's merely an analysis of the description given in the FAQ and my conclusion from that. And a brief one as well. I do not want to downplay the ...
• Radio Liferay
  I've started podcasting again. It's all on liferay.com and feedburner. The current working title is "Radio Liferay" and it covers all things noteworthy about Liferay.Tags : liferay, podcast
• It's been a while
  It's been a while since I updated this blog. During this time James Roper has been busy with a few more pebble releases. At the time of this writing, we're at 2.6.2, see the change log on open.jira.com for a summary on what's new and noteworthy. Also, ...
• Pebble 2.5 RC 1 released
  A big Thank You goes to James Roper for continuing to bring pebble forward. Last week he released pebble 2.5 RC 1 - go ahead, download and test. Major new features to test in this release include: New plugin manager - the old entering class names ...
• Verpackungsweisheiten
  Verpackungen begeistern mich immer wieder.Diese präzise Sprache:"komple...

• Re: TNO - Trust No One.
  @Richard. Thanks for the clarification. As I've been travelling I've been slow with answering - will do so in the FAQ as well. After all, with this information sync not only seems like a nice feature, but also as secure as I'd like features like this to ...
• Re: TNO - Trust No One.
  @Anonymous: I hope to have stated clearly that I didn't want to rant about the software that I didn't test. I merely wanted to react to the documentation that IMHO clearly prohibits to even try the software for the reasons given.
• Re: TNO - Trust No One.
  "We" in this case refers to Firefox. The FAQ is written for non-technical users; some degree of imprecision is sometimes necessary for readability. The sync key is generated on the client, and is never made available to Mozilla. (It can -- in ...