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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

Hold developers accountable, not liable, for flaws

A story on ZDNet on making code more secure quotes Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity adviser as well as Microsoft and eBay security czar and now CEO of R&H Security Consulting, about holding developers accountable not liable for the code they write (the headline on the story, "Expert: Hold...

Tags: Howard Schmidt

Blog posts 2005-10-12

Additional Resources

Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy

Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment. The search giant on Thursday reported net income of $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, on revenue of $5.37 billion excluding...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Live Webcast: CIO Strategies for Retention and Deletion of Email and Electronic Information

Over the past two years, major changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP and the increase in state and federal compliance regulations have created new challenges for companies as they struggle to manage email retention and deletion policies. To successfully maintain compliance and protect their...

Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Compliance, MessageOne, E-mail, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-07-10

Now I know we're in a recession

OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-02

A place for our stuff

This morning I learned of the news of George Carlin's passing with much sadness, and with the realization that we have lost one of the great thinkers and comedic minds of the last century. More than any other comedian, he was the one who I identified with most. Someone who...

Tags: Possession, Stuff, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that's the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...

Tags: Advertisement, Digital Television, Digital Television Transition, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-15

News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-12

GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstood

GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstoodGoogle and Fair IsacTwo most modern day evil compaines!RE: GOOG CEO sayswho/what is Fair IsacEvil?By what absolute scale does one determine whether a given act or policy is "evil"? Relativism, particularly in a corporate context, makes it a somewhat slippery concept. As a...

Tags: who/what, slogan, Moral Relativism, Be Evil, Google Inc., GOOG, Fair Isac

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstood

This is interesting. Take a look at this story in which Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, says the company's mantra of "Don't be evil" is often misunderstood. Reuters' Eric Auchard: Google CEO talks of good, evil and monopoly fears In an on-stage interview with...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, CEO, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?RE: Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?I seriously doubt they were doing it deliberately, it's not like they could have done it without people realising.And as for anonymously bashing ebay, they were arguing against ebay cutting off other payment methods hardly surprising. They...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., App Engine, PayPal

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Monitoring our immune system

You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Imaging, Monitoring, Probe, Cell, PET, FAC, 18F, Positron Emission Tomography, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too

Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy tooSo companies run by engineers always win?You wrote:Google is run by engineers and that’s why the company knocked the snot out of Yahoo.[End quote] Are marketing and operations so unimportant?Icahn's a money manAnd he appears to be looking at Yahoo strictly as...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., phone, Ma Bell

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too

Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman's terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here's the letter. You can...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Plan, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEO

In his latest missive to Yahoo's board of directors, activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasts chairman Roy Bostock and outlines what he'd do if he gets control of the company's board. Right after he ditched Yahoo's poison pill, Icahn said he would "ask our new board to hire a talented...

Tags: Poison Pill, Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Gates rules out returning to Microsoft

Today's Wall Street Journal is running an article on how Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer spent the past eight years learning how to pass the leadership baton from Gates to Ballmer. The most interesting part of the article -- and perhaps the main reason...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?

MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?re: MinWinI think the statement if accurate from "the anonymous Microsoft blogger claiming to be part of the team building Windows 7", is pretty clear and sounds like a reasonable explanation.I know, I know ........It's the next round of vapourware to...

Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

News to know: Google Apps; Vista UAC; Microsoft Echoes; Comcast; Dell

Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointment Ed Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate Larry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Vista UAC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Service Bus, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Michael Howard on SQL Injection and my concerns on the most recent attacks

Michael Howard on SQL Injection and my concerns on the most recent attacksvotes are off8 votes right now: No for 1st is 100% & Yes is 13%, same for 2nd, exception Yes & No percentages are switched. Poll bug?now they're goodAt 9 votes, they show up correctlyWeirdStrange... wonder what happened.-Nate

Tags: SECURITY, Michael Howard, SQL injection, SQL

Discussion threads 2008-05-29