July 10, 2015 The 11 tiniest, most powerful computers your money can buy http://www.geek.com/chips/the-11-tiniest-most-powerful-computers-your-money-can-buy-1627324/ I have my doubts about many things and the arguments here and in the comments section loom large. Yes, I can see that…
June 25, 2015 Another reason to have a policy not to eat at your operations I’ve worked in places where the policy was that you’re not allowed to bring a camera in; that was before cell phones, I admit,…
May 1, 2015 Can We Secure the ‘Internet of Other People’s Things’? http://www.eweek.com/security/can-we-secure-the-internet-of-other-peoples-things.html I think that title expresses the problem very well.
August 4, 2014 14 antivirus apps found to have security problems http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/antivirus_blood_splattered_as_biz_warned_audit_or_die Let us pass over the “All A are B” illogic in this and consider what we’ve known all along. AV doesn’t really work;…
April 25, 2014 OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL http://www.zdnet.com/openbsd-forks-prunes-fixes-openssl-7000028613/#ftag=RSS86a1aa4 Interesting, eh? At the very least, this will apply a ‘many eyes’ to some of the SSL code and so long as the…
January 24, 2012 The Death of Antivirus Software http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19386-The-Death-of-Antivirus-Software.html The real issue here isn’t Ubuntu, or any other form of Linux. Its that AV software doesn’t work. PERIOD. There are over 50,000…
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 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…
February 24, 2011 Are *YOU* ready to give up yet? Apparently (ISC)2 did this survey … which means they asked the likes of us …. http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/security-management/229219084/under-growing-pressure-security-pros-may-be-ready-to-crack-study-says.html Faced with an attack surface that seems to…
June 4, 2010 Google Phasing out Windows http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Report-Google-phasing-out-internal-use-of-Microsoft-Windows-1012679.html “According to a report in the Financial Times, Google are phasing out the use of Microsoft‘s Windows within the company because of security…
January 25, 2010 Text vs HTML: what is more secure? There are “good” mailing lists and “not so good” mailing lists from the point of view of security. Try posting HTML mail to a…
November 25, 2009 Unfortunately, SNMPv2 is not secure You betcha its not! There are GOOD practices for deploying SNMP. The BEST practice is to avoid V2. If you must SNMP then use…
November 13, 2009 The Cost of patching I saw this assertion go by and it stood out: The bigger cost would be the cost of not patching. Such items as downtime…
May 5, 2009 The U.S. has 18 percent of its machines controlled by botnets http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17459&tag=nl.e589 A short while ago I read an article that tried to present both sides of the issue of whether companies should shut down…
February 5, 2009 Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7 Image via Wikipedia http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-ubuntu-vs-vista-vs-windows-7 Interestingly, even if not that relevant. And, of course, there’s the most important proviso of all: it is very, very…
December 17, 2008 The IDE of Choice: VI I do a bit of work on the fringe of the Ruby community, and the Mac is popular there along with an IDE or…
August 20, 2008 Why would anyone choose Linux when they already have Windows? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=760&tag=nl.e101 I could go through a litany of complaints I have about Linux. I could complain about the confusing number of distributions. I could…
April 25, 2008 Are these “Top 10” dumb things or not? At “10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers” Debra Littlejohn Shinder brings up some interesting common failings. Lets look at…
