Moving on
I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live.
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Judge releases Wikileaks
All it took was a little representation. That is one trouble with the US legal system.
Oil field data loss just common theft
Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil.Way back when I was an industry analyst I remember fighting the battle against universitites about so called academic freedom and firewalls.
Declan on Wikileaks
The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the fray over Wikileaks. See Declan McCullagh's coverage.
Only 8,700 insecure ftp servers?
According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or phisher would want ftp access with admin credentials so they can quickly and easily upload there wares to the web sites served by the ftp service.
You can keep on asking...
But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection.
Pakistan removed from the Internet
4:30 PM Eastern (US).The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today.
Pakistan declares war on YouTube
What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an international fiasco. But no, Pakastan has ordered all ISP's to block YouTube.
Pakistan takes out YouTube
Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems.
Get a clue Morocco
Do you ever get the feeling that the people around you are missing out on a major shift in the way the world works? Try explaining lolcats to your grandfather for instance.
TippingPoint tips balance in withdrawal of CFIUS application
I met Mike Rothman last night for drinks. He was on a once in a lifetime pass through Southfield, Michigan.
Bullseye! US shoots down spy satellite!
Good job. According to Reuters, the US has succeeded in shooting down its errant spy satellite.
Great source on cyber espionage
I am taking a couple of days to explore the slopes at Boyne Mountain. For those of you who regularly ski the Alps and Rockies I have one thing to say.
California court order effectively erases Wikileaks
In the rapidly escalating story of Wikileaks.org, (here) a California court has ordered the domain registrar, Dynadot, to erase all DNS entries for the domain, effectively erasing a website that hosts millions of documents purportedly "leaked" to the wiki-style site in the name of whistle-blowing on malfeasance.
Does IT matter?
As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is:For a brief period, as they are being built into the infrastructure of commerce, these "infrastructural technologies," as I call them, open opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain strong competitive advantages.