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- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Dems: Broadband policy crucial but so-far nonexistent
- John McCain can't get online without his wife's help, but the storyline is that doesn't matter because as former chair of the Commerce Committee, McCain is intimately familiar with tech policy issues. At panels at the Demo Convention today, Democrats assailed that argument, saying that, ""On McCain's...
- Tags: Broadband, John McCain, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8
- On August 25, Microsoft officials confirmed that the company will, indeed, provide private browsing, a k a "porn mode," as of Internet Explorer IE 8 Beta 2. IE 8 Beta 2 is expected to go to testers later this week. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Privacy, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., IE 8 Beta 2, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush
- Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George BushAre You Ready????To have your privacy taken away? For some joker to place more power with the RIAA and MPAA than your own persons.Anyone to push corporate initiatives to be funded by the tax payers should not be in office. ...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, George W. Bush, Dems, digital-rights management, Joe Biden, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring
- From SecurityFocus: Federal law enforcement officials arrested seven men on Tuesday on charges related to child pornography, the latest arrests in an investigation of peer-to-peer networks that has led to 52 California residents charged or indicted this year. The investigation, spearheaded by the FBI's...
- Tags: Child Pornography, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Overheated iPod nano blamed for three fires
- Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect. TOKYO--Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be...
- Tags: Ministry, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, iPod nano, Apple, fires, batteries, Japan
- News items 2008-08-19
- From Metasploit to Microsoft: Skape goes to Redmond
- Metasploit developer Matt Miller, who for years frustrated Microsoft officials with the public release of Windows exploits, is heading to Redmond to join Microsoft's Security Science team. Miller, who uses the hacker moniker Skape,will work on improved ways to find security vulnerabilities and better software defenses through...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Corp., Matt Miller, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM Australia faces strike action
- A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...
- Tags: Ballot, Agreement, IBM Corp., IBM, workforce, strike, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
- News items 2008-08-15
- Decision on MIT students' gag order delayed until Tuesday
- The MIT students currently under a gag order not to speak about their research into security holes in the Boston's CharlieCard system will spend the weekend still gagged. A federal judge today declined to lift a temporary restraining order until it expires on Tuesday, News.com reports. ...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself
- Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, YourselfI think there is a balance to be struckI'm not happy with the proliferation of cameras you describe, and am opposed to fishing expeditions on principle. I'd much rather see more police on the street particularly in high crime areas, and more police officers who...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Big Brother, Police Surveillance, camera
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Gary McKinnon wins short stay from extradition
- Gary McKinnon, who may be a somewhat deranged alien hunter or "the world's most dangerous hacker," as U.S. authorities style him according to the Guardian won a temporary stay of his extradition to the U.S. Last month, the British House of Lords court denied his appeal...
- Tags: U.S., Stay, Gary McKinnon, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Microsoft to highlight app virtualization at September launch
- Last month, Microsoft officials mentioned the company was planning some kind of virtualization launch event to be held in Seattle in early September, but wouldn't say more. But now the cat is at least partially out of the virtual bag. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Desktop, Softricity SoftGrid, Microsoft Corp., MED-V, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progressOffending messagesI would like to know what constitutes an 'offending message' and who makes the decision and on which criterion?Other than that, I want to say that Russia is being vilified in a similar way to Serbia when she fought against terrorisism directed...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...
- Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows
- It's an unlikely pairing: security officials and underground hackers. Every year, they make peace and share information at Defcon, Black Hat's sister conference. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 16th annual event that begins in Las Vegas this weekend. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows
- It's an unlikely pairing: security officials and underground hackers. Every year, they make peace and share information at Defcon, Black Hat's sister conference. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 16th annual event that begins in Las Vegas this weekend.
- Tags: hacker, hacking, security
- Videos 2008-08-11
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