by Robin Harris | Friday, May 11, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
A SWAT team busts open your door, grabs all your computer gear, and arrests you for child pornography That would be a swell day, eh? Oh, and then you lose your job, your friends shun you and strangers feel free to beat you to death. Or maybe you just decide to end it...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Over at Storage Bits, my new ZDnet blog, I wrote about Secure Erase, a feature that Walter Purvis at Data Mobility Group told me about. Secure Erase (SE) excited so much attention over there that I thought I’d take a more leisurely stroll through it here. Free,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 13, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
After you sign over everything you own, we can be friends The folks over at Redmond Channel Partner [“partner” sounds so much better than “lackey”, don’t you think?] report on a Japanese anti-trust investigation of Microsoft. The issue:...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 30, 2007 | Backup, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
A distinguished scholar published a book last year about data replication in the Greek-speaking ancient world. He examined a group of texts and how the technology and context of the times affected data integrity. He looked at (I think he had some help) over 5700...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Intel last week provided a window into just how screwed up even wealthy, forward looking companies are around document retention for pending litigation. In the law biz these policies go under the general term of “litigation hold”. Intel is in Federal court...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 8, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Today’s Wall Street Journal article Skimming Devices Target Debit-Card Readers (subscription required, I fear) describes how thieves are hacking debit cards: replace store credit card mag stripe readers with ones that copy the mag card data and the PIN. The...
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