Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
That Canada ranked #2 in defending the privacy of its citizens is perhaps more of a sad comment on international complacence on privacy issues than a major achievement of which we can be particularly proud. From The Globe and Mail:
LONDON — Germany and Canada are the best defenders of privacy, ...
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
One phish, two phish, red phishing-shield, green phishing-shield
Microsoft and Mozilla have released their new browsers Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 which include anti-phishing features that warn end users about web sites which suspected or known to pose as trusted parties for the purpose of stealing sensitive information such as ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Adam (crypto nerd extraordinaire, former evil-genius at Zero Knowledge) from the Emergent Chaos "jazz combo" throws us a reference and ties it in with an amusing story about misguided security concepts.
The Emporer's New Computer
Affixing a Mac logo to my PC was, after all, motivated by a combination of personal amusement ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Yoda said "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" He didn't run a site on the internet, which is and always will be a "best effort network" with no guarantees of availability and performance. It is up to the customer to optimize these aspects the best they can for ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
First in a series of articles about useful things: how to protect your personal computer running Windows when it hooked up to the internet, and do it for free!
A combination of Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware is essential for any general purpose internet user running a windows PC, here are my ...
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Whereas in the old days squatters would hold domains hostage to sell them to the highest bidder, the new strategy is to attract as much traffic as possible and serve up ads that generate a revenue stream thanks to targeted, pay per click advertising such as Google's AdWords.
There are a ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
While I don't want to distract the reality and immediacy of the disaster in the New Orleans area, a friend pointed out this October 2001 article to me and it is hard not to reflect on our prescience of this event:
"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
Anyone who uses a personal computer (or who reads the paper) is aware that PCs are highly susceptible to a raft of problems that fall into the domain of "computer security". Even my parents know that computers need to be patched frequently and are aware (first hand!) that these patches ...
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
I recently read The Human Factor by engineering professor Kim Vincente. This is an eye-opening book about the importance of "adapting technology to people" instead of "forcing people to adapt to technology." The field of Human Factor Engineering has apparently been around for awhile, but never has society been in ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Thanks to Pacanukeha for his comments on "Go with the flow...", they give me the opportunity to clarify the argument for compliance monitoring. The misunderstanding is probably the fault of the atrocious title of my post, therefore I have changed it - ah, the wonders of the blogosphere, where post ...
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