A couple of years ago, I suffered through the clean up of a bad wordpress hack, mostly as a result of leaving an old install without updates, and having it cross over to my main blog. Because of that, I keep a pretty good eye on things around here when I have the time, just…
Yesterday was time for my annual review. One of the topics up for discussion was that this year the entire organization is going to be asked to come up with disaster recovery strategies. Now as far as our data goes, I’ve had a disaster recovery plan in place for a number of years, although it’s…
Truthfully though, I think this story shows a couple of really important points.Â
Recognize that mistakes happen
The importance of two-factor identification
The importance of taking action as soon as you realize the mistake
The importance of getting the technical folks involved immediately instead of hiding it
I disabled trackbacks on the entire blog. I’m tired of dealing with the spam. Perhaps if Haloscan puts something together that makes some effort at blocking it I’ll think about it again, but for now, it’s too much work deleting the dozens of spam trackbacks every single day. While the trackbacks will still appear in…
The newspaper has reported that the Justice Department is weighing how to move forward with an ongoing investigation that has run into trouble because of the service’s encryption. A federal judge had okayed a wiretap order during the course of the investigation, but because the communications being tapped is encrypted, they can’t see what’s being…
Put up my Gnomedex Album. Had a great time at the party tonight. Met and hung out with Tanya and Jerry, who work for a company I promised not to link to yet. They actually learned so much about website development at Gnomedex that they want to go home and redo a bunch of their…