by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Companies and practitioners spend billions of dollars a year on RAID to protect against disk drive failure. Yet all the research I’ve seen shows that the most common reasons for data loss are, and always have been, caused by people: accidental file deletion and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 26, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A fine article in the latest Macworld describes how to create a thumb drive loaded with portable apps – including some that work with Windows – for use on the road. It is the first I’ve seen how-to article that actually describes the process in...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 5, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Fear mongering over the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) requirements for electronic discovery has already begun with an article Storage Goes to Law School. As December 1, 2006 implementation date approaches expect the hype to rise. The “buy my widget...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 | Security & Public Policy |
Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US Army is starting a pilot program to encrypt all data on all mobile devices. But that’s not all: In the coming weeks, the secretary of the Army will release a new policy on data encryption mandating that each Army...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
8/24 Update: Alert reader Tom Maddox pointed me to Bruce Schneier’s (CTO of Counterpane Security) blog post on TrackMeNot – and why it won’t work. Good read. However it appears that Bruce is tackling one problem – protecting one’s privacy...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 11, 2006 | Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Should Impersonating a Human Be a Crime? Fascinating Wall Street Journal article about a YouTube video that satirizes Al Gore’s global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The two-minute video is called Al Gore’s Penguin Army. I haven’t seen...
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