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- Bruce Schneier on the 10 year security outlook (it's worrisome)
- Bruce Schneier on the 10 year security outlook (it's worrisome)My view"IT systems will become so interconnected that the risk of failures will escalate."IT systems will hopefully use the increased connectivity to increase redundancy to counter this. One node failing should not bring down the entire network."And endpoints will never be...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), security technology, software-as-a-service, Bruce Schneier, security outlook, security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Bruce Schneier on the 10 year security outlook (it's worrisome)
- Technology will evolve as computers become 100 times more powerful in 10 years. IT systems will become so interconnected that the risk of failures will escalate. And endpoints will never be secure. Meanwhile, the same old crimes--fraud, theft, impersonation and counterfeiting--will remain old standbys as new technology leads to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Bruce Schneier, Ranum, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Strategy, Security, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Schneier: Do not upgrade to Vista
- Security guru Bruce Schneier has given a big thumbs-down to Windows Vista, arguing that the DRM digital rights management features built into the new operating system "will make your computer less reliable and less secure."The celebrated cryptographer, who is credited with designing or co-designing several widely used encryption algorithms, is...
- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista, Punditocracy, Piracy, Digital rights management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Bruce Schneier, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Typing patterns as an authentication method
- Bruce Schneier's blog points to a user authentication technology that uses individual typing characteristics for identity verification. Similar to the way some detections systems claim to identify a person by their gait, PSYLock does psychometrical authentication based on the notion that typing behaviour of individuals has unique features that cannot...
- Tags: Bruce Schneier
- Blog posts 2005-11-02
- Who's accountable (or liable) for software security?
- Bruce Schneier has added his viewpoint to the debate that started with Howard Schmidt's comment that programmers should be held personally accountable for the quality of their code. In a Wired News column, Schneier writes: He's on the right track, but he's made a dangerous mistake. It's the software manufacturers...
- Tags: software, Bruce Schneier, Howard Schmidt
- Blog posts 2005-10-20
- Is the Linux process insecure?
- Time for me to play devil's advocate again.The Schneier Wave graph to the right may be the most famous diagram in computer security. It's named for Bruce Schneier of Counterpane, a leading computer security expert. As Schneier explained back in 2001, vulnerability to a security bug is highest between the...
- Tags: RSS, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Bruce Schneier, security
- Blog posts 2005-05-18
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- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...
- Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...
- Tags: encryption algorithm
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claimsJim is missing one essential point.Dana,While I have not heard of any official plan to do this, it's a no-brainer to consider that the Symbian platform in its new role could be hosted on top of...
- Tags: mobile, Symbian Inc., open source, Linux, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Samsung HT-X810T
- If the primary appeal of soundbar speakers is based on their significant reduction of wires and clutter--as compared with 5.1-channel home theater-in-a-box systems--then Samsung's new HT-X810T soundbar should be a winner. While it's not the first single-speaker system with a built-in DVD player or a wireless subwoofer--that'd be the Philips...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, subwoofer, Samsung HT-X810T, speaker, sub, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- First hands-on review of the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media Player
- First hands-on review of the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media PlayerLooks like a winnerGood overview. I wish these things would be more like $99 or so :-) Also, why are they handicapped to play certain video or certain rates is puzzling. If it plays on the PC,it should...
- Tags: Home networking, D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD-Media Player, D-Link Systems
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minuses
- The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesNegatives!!!What negatives!?RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesWho gives a shit what cio's think? aren't these the very same jerks whose stocks are plunging, without the iPhone? How many ford execs have Blackberries? enough said.RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses...
- Tags: Games, E-mail, Hacking, iphone, Pondering iPhone, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- A call for national innovation policy
- Bruce Nussbaum at Newsweek calls on Obama and McCain Hillary is excused to address a key issue facing American competitiveness – the need for an "innovation policy." Here's his list: Support the codification of design methodology and design strategy as being worked on at leading...
- Tags: Immigration, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...
- Tags: Sales, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Negroponte's big lie
- Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...
- Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Do we need another CERT?
- Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
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