Thanks to My Wife for pointing out this Wash. Post article about the surveillance system the airlines and the FAA are contemplating. To quote: Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly pull together every passenger’s travel history and living arrangements, plus a wealth…
Stephen Gielda has a nice little article about internal system security, and stresses how the weakest link in network security is inside your office, not outside. Monday for me has been rather uneventful. Staff Meeting this morning didn’t even ruin my mood for the day like it has consistently the last few times we’ve had…
Jevon, from blogtrack.com is working on a fix as we speak. Of course since I have lost the ability to ftp to my own domain, I don’t know when anyone will actually get this update! And the hosting company was doing so well there for awhile..tsk tsk. Update: according to their site news, the security…
Pat LaFontaine’s sweet dream. While we’re all so busy bashing Microsoft, I noticed that they are the corporate partner along with ex-NHL player Pat LaFontaine in trying to equip children’s hospitals with high-tech play rooms. I may not agree with everything they do, but you gotta stop and give them credit for this. I hope…
I haven’t had any word from my hosting provider about what the real server path to the site is, so no testing for now. Still keeping my fingers crossed that using it will speed things up a bit. In the meantime: Via Scripting News, I see that Dan Gillmor puts into more elequent words the…
File-sharing programs carry Trojan horse The amazing thing about this is how ignorant people are to the whole file-sharing model, and how it is insecure by it’s very nature, let alone the spyware added into it. Think about it, how is a program that allows people to access your machine, and you to access theirs,…