“Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies. While the report doesn’t explicitly rule out encryption legislation, it lands firmly on the side of encryption policy critics, arguing that law enforcement backdoors pose a threat to security. “
I guess it’s nice to know that someone in the government sees the obvious. Sadly, we had to have a committee report done for someone to actually acknowledge it.
I needed to go back to fix something way back from the early, early days of this blog, and I saw a headline that blew me away. Lately, there has been much discussion about how the FBI, and others, claim that encryption will only be a boon to terrorists and is an imminent danger to…
Things to read over the holiday. We’ll be on the road to the in-laws later today, and tied to dial up for the entirety of the weekend, so don’t expect there to be much around here. These links should hold you over… Dave Kearns : Ease of use wins over security. MT ‘Mail this entry’…
This thing is, I think all that noise will end up taking us back somewhere we’ve been before, and maybe shouldn’t have left, when a website with a blog wasn’t “content” but represented the thoughts and opinions of real people, who you could get to know and interact with. After all, the best way to get authentic information is to get it from authentic people, right?
I’m declaring spyware and browser hijackings as an epidemic based solely on this: Just about everyone I meet who knows what I do for a living, starts asking me about how to clean this crap out of their systems! Seriously, the guy who does building maintenance for our office just stopped by and asked for…
I’m just going to put this quote out there. I don’t have anything else to add other than this is probably one of the biggest causes of re-work in the industry. “Here’s the rub — the litigation support folks, and yes, even the world’s most amazing project manager — have no idea what the lawyers…
It’s not easy to build meaningful relationships at conferences. Organizers may try to ease awkward introductions (and 50-foot staredowns) with networking events, and a majority of people at the conference may be interested in networking, but that doesn’t make it easy. You’re surrounded by hundreds, sometimes thousands of people; some are vying for attention, others…
