by Robin Harris | Friday, March 2, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
Tech support for books So you are an experienced reader of scrolls and someone hands you a book. How do you figure it out? That’s the premise of this Norwegian TV skit (subtitles provided). Funny. Watching that reminded me of a recent New Yorker article about...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 15, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
The always thoughtful and incisive Bruce Schneier is out with his latest CRYPTO-GRAM. He’s got an interesting take on a government-mandated $11 billion personal storage program: Real-ID. No debate, no vote People in other countries – yes, there are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 4, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Cisco’s just-announced acquisition of IronPort for $830 million is a shot across the bow of, among others, EMC’s RSA acquisition. As I wrote about Datacenter Ventures last September A couple of people commented that network security is evolving from...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 2, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
Friends of Fair Use, rejoice: it appears that the encryption on high-def movies, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has been broken. Consumer content encryption is a fool’s game This looks like a war the movie industry can’t win. Why? Sell the consumer the encrypted...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 | Security & Public Policy |
I’m still on a light posting schedule until next year but this was too choice to ignore. In a front page article today, (available online, but subscription required) the Wall Street Journal details a medical records horror story. A middle-aged woman’s...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 8, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The redoubtable Kevin Closson has a post entitled “Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administratorâ€. In it he refers to a study put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group called “Managing the Storage Equation: The Converging Roles of Data and...
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