Techfoot Short Takes

The Common Craft folks do their thing by explaining how Twitter works. “Twitter brought her closer to people who meant something to her 140 characters at a time.”

Internationally renowned security technologist and author. “Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose a password too complicated to remember and then write it down. We’re all good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet.”

Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love.

The percentage of Apple users on campus continues to grow.