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Shred changes default number of passes to 3

I thought it would be nice to share with you that I received a comment from Pádraig Brady, member of the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) maintainers team, on yesterday’s post about effective data wiping saying that he has decreased shred‘s default number of passes from 25 to 3, as shown in this git commit. The [...]

bbPress registration functions patch

The default messages that are emailed by bbPress to newly registered users or users that have requested password recovery are quite disappointing compared to such messages that are sent by other more mature forum applications. So, here is a patch that modifies the default messages, so that they look more professional, containing some details about [...]