OK, OK I haven’t updated all weekend. There’s actually a very good reason for that. The geek weekend I had planned turned into a weekend of geek hell! Let’s start from the beginning. Wednesday night while I was trying to play with some scripts, I lost the ftp connection to my website. I couldn’t even…
China closes 17,488 Net cafes This is the sort of thing that happens when the government tells you what you can and can’t read, and what is appropriate for you to be informed about and what is “subversive”. .
This is going to be a busy holiday weekend. Not so much because of the holiday, although we will be doing Thanksgiving dinner with my family, but because of all of the projects I have lined up to do! Assuming the UPS delivery date is correct and I get it today, I’ll be installing a…
Users are the weakest link, security experts warn | Computerworld News & Features Story This is pretty good stuff. This article really shows the things you need your senior management folks to know and buy into. It took me a long time to get folks here to buy into security, and since it’s still in…
Sort of a slow day today, which is ok, since I forgot to write about the seminar I was at yesterday! It was Are you Vulnerable? Wireless, Worms & CyberThreats put on by ISS . This turned out to actually be pretty good. I was expecting a big scare tactic followed by a sales pitch…
BBC News | UK | Comedy site has plug pulled Freeserve pulled the plug because it ” was likely to cause “offence and anxiety”. Given the current legal conditions and ISP’s willingness to shutdown a site rather than deal with the complaints, I vote that we start to complain to ISP’s about stupid websites. No…