June 25, 2006 Irony Headline: FTC attorney’s laptops stolen http://www.presstelegram.com/business/ci_3969575 The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive…
June 23, 2006 Microsoft’s strategic insecurity Bruce Schneier pointed to this in his blog this week: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System ZDNet has a discussion about the ethics of such ‘hacking’. If Microsoft sells…
June 22, 2006 Side by side news I found this:- http://www.gcn.com/print/25_16/41041-1.html The Agriculture Department’s wireless policy, updated in April through a series of departmental notices, comprises everything from architectural requirements to…
June 12, 2006 Europe must be crazy http://www.csoonline.com/caveat/060606.html?source=csoupdateMaybe they know something we don’t? Maybe they do have good security, but they are doing what we say security should be, and that…
June 12, 2006 Encrypted USB flash drives http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=14&tag=nl.e539 Yea, right. Fine for the monoculture, but what about us types for whom MS-Windows is not the ne-plus-ultra, not the first choice? Oh,…
