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Microsoft proposes "invitation mechanism" for secure social networking behind enterprise firewalls

Ask any security-conscious enterprise sys admin hopefully they are all born with the security gene and they will tell you that they dread outside social networks. In more cases than not, these social networks are firewalled. Apparently sensing the need...

Tags: Firewall, Network, Microsoft Corp., Endpoint, Invitation Mechanism, Firewalls, Network Security, Social Networking, Security, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-27

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Wetpaint goes social

Wetpaint has added a slew of social networking features to its drop dead easy to use wiki. Amont the new features are: Friends Network: Wetpaint users can now connect with one another through friend invitations Custom Member Profiles: Each site can have...

Tags: Wetpaint, Consumer Good, Wiki, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Just what is "desktop virtualization" anyway?

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different virtualization technologies in several categories of virtualization software (see Sorting out the different...

Tags: Software, Desktop, Device, Environment, Goal, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Security makeover for Yahoo Messenger

Eight days after the release of exploit code for code execution holes in the Yahoo Messenger IM client, Yahoo has shipped a new version with patches for its Windows user base.The latest security makeover, which is being distributed via the software's auto-update mechanism, covers two separate vulnerabilities that can be...

Tags: Security, Yahoo IM, Webcam, Yahoo! Inc., Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine

Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine... Who cares?So basically, it's a proprietary ad-hoc network. How delightfully unimpressive.Oooh, I smell a future security patchThis seems like just the kind of thing for which hackers foam at the mouth. Anytime a new 'feature' (especially network-related) is included in Windows, it usually serves...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Peer to peer (P2P), Operating systems, NETWORKING, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, P2P, Microsoft Corp., network

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27

Profit's calling in the Ether

Ether, a project launched by Ingenio (formerly Keen.com, an answers network that has become a call processing service), is up and running an invitation-only beta as of a few hours ago. Michael Arrington has the step-by-step look at the sign-up and call experience over at TechCrunch, so I won't...

Tags: Ether

Blog posts 2006-03-01

LinkedIn vs. Plaxo: Is LinkedIn winning?

Are you using LinkedIn, Plaxo, Orkut, or one of the umpteen contact management or Six-Degrees of Kevin Bacon-like business card exchanges? If there's someone you need an introduction to through someone else you know, chances are pretty good that you know the right people to make that introduction happen. Provided...

Tags: LinkedIn, Plaxo

Blog posts 2005-09-06

Why the computing world chose PKI

Why the computing world chose PKIActivation energy vs. activation errorsI've used, designed and maintained PGP extensively from the early days where no part was user friendly up to the current day where post-activation use is very slick. I've also used, designed and maintained PKI's for years. In both...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, PGP Corp., PKI, Alice

Discussion threads 2005-08-09

GPL 3 won't split projects, Moglen says

GPL 3 won't split projects, Moglen saysSlightly Off topic...How about a click-through license for standards in a similar way to GPL protects source.I thought about this when looking at the SPF situation. Pobox put out a usable anti-spam solution, it was embraced-extended into a patent protected closed solution.The same thing...

Tags: Kerberos, OPEN SOURCE, GPL, Mike Sax, Moglen, GPL 3

Discussion threads 2005-03-25

Caller ID: Do you really know who's calling?

Caller ID: Do you really know who's calling?Horse Hockey! There is NO good reason to lie!So what, your a bill collector, that doesn't grant a license to lie.I would support laws making this totally illegal! Anyone care to take a guess how long it takes to show up...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, caller ID, PABX

Discussion threads 2004-08-30