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10 entries filed this day
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · Networking / web 2.0
The Long Tail is finally spurring debate. It is refreshing to see some pretty big brains going at the notion and debating it. Lee Gomes took a swing at the notion in the WSJ to which Chris has responded. Nick...
Filed at 4:36am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · content / content aggregators / Knowledge Management / new media / what's new
Laurence Timms is developer on Chuquet one of a number of new blog aggregators and one that I’m enjoying using. Chuquet uses inbound links as a way of scoring the popularity of blog posts. A familiar strategy so Laurence and I got to exchanging views on the inbuilt bias of today’s content aggregators.Here’s my...
Filed at 6:06am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
This person worked as an airport security screener years before 9/11, before the TSA, so hopefully things are different now. It's a pretty fascinating read, though.
Filed at 8:22am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
In 1994, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Basically, this is the law that forces the phone companies to make your telephone calls -- including cell phone calls -- available for government wiretapping.
Filed at 1:09pm
Matt Asay · VP Business Development, Alfresco · Knowledge Management / strategy
Earlier this week I delivered a presentation at OSCON 2006 entitled “Making Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source Businesses.” I’ve been involved with commercial open source since 1998, and have learned a lot over the years (including how to fail spectacularly and slightly more gracefully). I’m in the middle of...
Filed at 1:17pm
Sue Abu-Hakima · VP of Content Technology, Entrust · secure messaging & content control / Security
As the various consolidations continue in security, a disturbing trend is to see content filtering or control vendors not address the requirements of securing content as it is communicated. Content control by definition is aimed at making sure that sensitive information such as customer accounts, intellectual property, SSNs, credit card data, etc. are appropriately protected when communicated. There have been a number of recent cases where sensitive information has been intercepted and if it had been encrypted, it would not have been decipherable or breached. http://idtheft.about.com/od/dataandstat1/a/2006_breaches.htm Selectively encrypting email is very useful in ensuring that sensitive information is protected and content is controlled. The two are a pair that should always be reviewed together.
Filed at 2:00pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
Does anyone other than me see a problem with this ? Some 30 European businesses and research institutes are working to create software that would make it possible from a distance to regain control of an aircraft from hijackers, according to the German news magazine. The system "which could only be controlled from the ground would conduct the aircraft posing a problem to the nearest airport whether it liked it or not," according to extracts from next Monday's Der Spiegel released Saturday.
Filed at 4:09pm
Eric Newcomer · Chief Technology Officer, IONA · services and soa / Software Development
This week the new SCA website went live and in addition to an update on the work we've completed since we kicked it off in January, we announced new partners, including Cape Clear, Interface21, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software (formerly Sonic Software), Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, Software AG, Sun Microsystems and Tibco Software.
Filed at 4:17pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
No explanation given, but it's annoying fishermen : The problem took on alarming proportions in early July when fishermen netted more than 500 tons of squid bycatch in one week, Josh Keaton, a resource management specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, said Friday. The amount of squid was about four times what might be expected.
Filed at 5:37pm
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
I got a nice blue box in the mail: It seems Seth Godin persuaded Google to donate one of their new Google Mini appliances to power Joel on Software. Thanks, Google! If you use the search box, above, you can try it out.
Filed at 7:14pm