by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 4, 2006 | Security & Public Policy |
Jon William Toigo over DrunkenData.com has a post commenting on the Computerworld story on data exposure in online public documents. Using that data criminals can not only ruin your credit rating while collecting tens of thousands of dollars, they can also take your...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 28, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Security & Public Policy |
EMC’s GM of the Grid & Utility Computing, Ian Baird, mentioned at EMC World in Boston this week that EMC had invested in distributed caching technology developed by YottaYotta, a Canadian startup, for their “Grid Storage” strategic direction....
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
In this post Prof. Eugene Spafford of Purdue talks about security and passwords. There are so many buzzwords and scare-tactic marketing in security that most of the non-technical people I know are reduced to the cyber equivalent of burnt offerings: they subscribe to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Even though disk storage gets about 5-10% cheaper every quarter, people still hate paying for it. A new CPU goes faster, a new display is brighter and/or bigger, but new storage just sits there until we fill it up. For that reason, the idea of RAID 5 (see the...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 15, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
The special interest attack on the Internet continues. Even as America falls further behind other industrialized countries in broadband penetration and network providers pursue plans to charge content providers for quality access, a new threat is emerging. According...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 14, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Slash dot points to this story from the BBC and AP about military secrets being sold along with USB drives in Afghan bazaars. The flash drives are stolen from US military bases by Afghans working in them. A few thoughts: Maybe they should pay the Afghans a little...
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