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Month: August 2011

August 24, 2011

The real reasons for documentation – and how much

he documentation required and/or needed by ISO-2700x is a perenial source of dispute in the various forums I subscribe to. Of course management has…

August 22, 2011

Your Asset is my Consumable

August 18, 2011

TV kills!

I keep telling everybody that TV is injurious to your (mental) health, but does anyone listen? Why should they? They didn’t when Gerry Mander…

August 9, 2011

His Bipolar made him do it

http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/current-affairs/his-bipolar-made-him-do-it/ An accused hedge fund fraudster’s mother is showing support, by claiming her son is not to blame for defrauding investors out of over…

August 7, 2011

Using ALE … inappropriately

Like many forms of presenting facts, not least of all about risk, reducing complex and multifaceted information to a single figure does a dis-service…

August 6, 2011

Schneier on Security: Hacking Cars Through Wireless Tire-Pressure

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/hacking_cars_th.html A few alarming things here. More nanny State : In other words, the nanny state is forcing upon us expensive and insecure systems…

August 6, 2011

The Decline of the Physical Desktop

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/As-Foretold-by-Desktop-Managment-Tools-588370/ What’s interesting here is that this isn’t preaching “The Cloud” and only mentions VDI in one paragraph (2 in the one-line expanded version)….

August 6, 2011

Would you buy a computer from a company like this?

http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html Its not a camera, its computer that takes pictures Its not a car, its a computer that gets you from place to place…

August 6, 2011

Fwd: How Quality Drives the Rise and fall of hi-tech products

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2011-summer/52403/how-quality-drives-the-rise-and-fall-of-high-tech-products I’m dubious. On the one hand I recall a book titled “In Search of Stupidity“, which I strongly recommends reading, its about the…

August 4, 2011

Mistaken Thinking – Risk not threats

Via a LinkedIn posting in the Infosecurity magazine forum titled “Internet Threats Posed By Mobile Devices: How Can We Prevent Them?” I came to…

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