HTTP 404 Error Messages

404: Not Found
The resource could not be found on the server. May be caused by misspelling a URI, or requesting a resource that has been deleted.

In computer network communications, the 404 error message (HTTP 404) is a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard response code, to indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested.

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How Secure is Your Password?

Here is a interactive brute force search space calculator that allows you to see how well you have secured your site with your password. It is fun to try easy ones and then what you need to do to strengthen the passwords you come up with. This was written by security expert Steve Gibson and is perfectly safe.

How well hidden is your needle?

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Copy & Paste in Facebook

If you use Facebook you have seen a post, usually fairly long, that instructs you to copy and paste this post into your own status. Older people, like me, will remember chain letters that try to convince you that you’ll have bad luck if you don’t mail copies of that said letter to some number of folks. This is sort of the same thing. While every post with copy and paste instructions, on Facebook, is not a hoax or scam it is the popular phrase used in both.

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