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- Wireless network for law enforcement a victim of federal infighting
- $195 million later, the US governments long-promised wireless radio network for law enforcement is at "high risk of failure," the Justice Departments inspector general reported yesterday, according to the Washington Post. At fault, according to Inspector General Glenn A. Fine: delays, funding shortfalls and infighting among ...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Justice Departments, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, infighting, homeland security, network, wireless, wireless network
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- DOJ inspector general to investigate NSA ties
- The Justice Departments inspector general is investigating the departments connection to the NSA domestic spying program, but the probe wont touch on the constitutionality of the program, The Washington Post reports. The "program review" will examine how the Justice Department has used information obtained from the NSA program,...
- Tags: Justice, Government technology, Justice Departments, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
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- U.K.'s Ministry of Justice Boosts Performance and Strengthens Security of National Offender Database
- The Ministry of Justice is one of the largest government departments in the United Kingdom. Within the Ministry of Justice, the National Offender Management Service NOMS is an executive agency that brings together the headquarters of the Probation Service and HM Prison Service. Responsible for protecting the public and reducing...
- Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., Performance, U.K., Analysis, Ministry Of Justice, Storage, Performance Management, Databases, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spots
- Obama has filled several of the highest positions in the Justice Departments with industry lawyers with deep connections to RIAA, software publishers. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Business Software Alliance, Barack Obama, Hollywood, Webcasting, RIAA, Lawyer, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-01-25
- Phishers as street-level drug dealers
- Phishers as street-level drug dealersIf you have an opportunity to make a buck, would you?Phishing is still free money. With very little skills and resources needed, the opportunity still exists. The problem is, it's much more easily tracked with the exchange of bank accounts and such. I...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, minimum wage, phishing
- Discussion threads 2009-01-12
- Metatomix at work with County Court system in Florida
- I ended my last post on Metatomix by noting; "The demonstrations and the rhetoric are certainly impressive; the true test lies in seeing the extent to which real tasks are made easier and more effective for real people in the real world." ...
- Tags: Metatomix Inc., Florida, Business Structures, Corporate Law, Finance, Business Operations, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- CRM 2.0 = The Conversation - But First....The Intro
- This is my first post for ZDNET. I'm back from a 10 day cruise to the Caribbean - had a great time - came back to the economy worse than what I left - though gas prices are great - and I'm feeling relaxed anyway - so I thought it...
- Tags: Strategy, Community, Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Social Customer Thing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail
- Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...
- Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Online thieves worse than 1960s Mafia
- It took Robert F. Kennedy to break the back of Mafia families like the Bonannos (that's Joe Bananas pictured) and we need that kind of dedicated commitment to stop today's equivalent of organized crime: online scammers, many of them from Eastern Europe. That was the message Attorney General Michael Mukasey...
- Tags: Banking, Government, Federal Government, Financial Services, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Whispers will not kill fair use
- Whispers will not kill fair useDon't discount the power of briberyThe amount of money and influence poured into Congressional coffers by the media cartel is huge. Add to that the fact that both elected officials and bureaucrats suffer from "star worship" as the general populace. Just look at the Hilary...
- Tags: Government, GWB, fair use, international law, epitome, indifference
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Surveillance society needs privacy safeguards
- Writing in the Washington Post, Frank Baitman, of the British-based Petards Group, which develops advanced surveillance systems, says that the time has come for some federal legislation on how surveillance images are captured, stored and shared. As an increasingly sophisticated surveillance blanket covers more of the United...
- Tags: Baitman, Britain, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman, U.S., Video, Video Surveillance
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Why regulations are important
- Why regulations are importantWhy did the roaming charges exist?Or, more precisely, why didn't competition stop the dominant players from colluding?In the US, roaming charges are for the most part a thing of the past. Competition eventually squashed them, even though the number of players in the US market isn't...
- Tags: Regulations, regulation
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Dell Helps SI International Cut Its Time to Deploy a High-Profile Project by 50 Percent
- SI International flourishes in Security Standard environment and has successfully served the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Commerce, and Homeland Security and the intelligence community since 1998. SI International needed to create a new data center and high-performance server environment to support a large U.S. government contract - in...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Environment, SI International Inc., It Services, Network Administration, Data Centers, Servers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Microsoft: We're good for your health
- Microsoft: We're good for your healthYou Have GOT to be kiddingI don't trust any company to store my medical records out on the internet. My records are between myself and my doctor. No one else.Knowing Microsoft's record on security, you would have to be a blithering idiot to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, KNOWING Microsoft, health care, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Terrorist watch list growing by leaps and bounds
- How many terrorists are streaming into the U.S.? In 2006, the number was 20,000, according to the federal Terrorist Screening Center. The total number on TSC's list: 500,000, reports Wired News.Twenty thousand -- just in one year? That's a 27 percent jump over 2005. That jump points to the...
- Tags: Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Interpol chief wants databases to track criminals
- Interpol chief wants databases to track criminalsYour paperzzz ...I guess Hitler had the right idea after all, at least according to George Bush, Alberto Gonzalez, and now Interpol.The ends justify the means, even if it involves little things like torturing people, trashing the constitution, and intruding into every single facet...
- Tags: database, Geneva Conventions, Interpol, POW
- Discussion threads 2007-07-13
- Microsoft repels Google antitrust complaints
- The New York Times has a story about Microsoft fighting off Google's antitrust complaints against Windows Search built in to Vista."Google complained to federal and state prosecutors that consumers who try to use its search tool for computer hard drives on Vista were frustrated because Vista has a competing desktop...
- Tags: Vista, Security, Microsoft, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Police blotter: Fired federal worker sues over googling
- Police blotter: Fired federal worker sues over googlingPolitical Appointees and Civil ServentsIt use to be standard practice for political appointees those given management positions in government by elected officials to fire entire departments. This was more often the rule than the exception because the elected official often wanted to reward...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, follow-UP, job, worker, government, Wierd Al
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Feds get C- security grade but Defense fails, DHS gets a D
- The conventional wisdom is that the federal government deserves failing grades for computer security. After all, the big VA breach of a year ago has been followed by many more stories of agencies losing computers, suffering data breaches and failing to encrypt sensitive data. Today a House committee handed out...
- Tags: Congress, Security, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
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