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- Consumer Watchdog overreacts about Gmail
- Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailRE: Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailThis group sounds like they would be horrified to find out that e-mail doesn't go straight from one computer to another, but hops along several computers. Any computer between point A and point B can read your message. E-mail is...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, Consumer Watchdog, Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Feds out for hacker's blood
- Feds out for hacker's bloodAnd Big Brother reaches out againrequiring a DNA sample for hacking??? that's just database building.and unacceptable, IMOGubment shortsitedOur gubment goes to all this trouble to chase down these hackers, try them in our kangaroo court system, convict them, yadi yadi, yadi yadi, etc. Now,...
- Tags: Hacking, Biotechnology, SECURITY, religion, hacker, gubment, Bible, DNA
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked
- Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...
- Tags: Web server, server
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk
- IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk11th IT CommandmentThou shallt remember that the neck of the bottle is at the top of the bottle...14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good15 Honour thy...
- Tags: IT Commandment, information technology, training material, backup
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own risk
- IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own riskThou shall not Gerrymander or BalkanizeThe history of UNIX is a history of struggle. Departments were given hardware and admins, and each one deployed their own solution. This created a variability in quality whereas your customer was only as empowered as his UNIX...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Catia, IT Commandment, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-04-11
- IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own risk
- In February, when L'Unix blogger Paul Murphy handed down his IT commandment, Thou shalt not outsource mission critical functions, we thought to ourselves: There must be a stone tablet's worth of basic IT rules. We asked each of the experts in ZDNet's blogosphere to supply a commandment that IT executives...
- Tags: Blogging, information technology, IT Commandment
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely couple
- Hard wiring processes should be a sin, let's do away with it once and for all. Since the dawn of computing, applications have been rigidly architected, and therefore tightly dependant on one another. Change one application, or interface, and you risked breaking many other applications. As a result, there's been...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Web services, IT Commandment, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy works
- Reuse is at the heart of all today's hot IT trends: open source, SaaS, Web 2.0, mashups, etc. But how is anyone supposed to reuse a piece of code or a service if the documentation's inadequate? When I started out writing this commandment, it was headed "Thou shalt not...
- Tags: information technology, IT Commandment
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear changeParty like it's 1999?I still see about as many headhunter e-mails and field about as many phone calls as I did in 1999. Most of them are a) projects related to Homeland Security, or b) projects that prepare in-house resources to be...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Operating systems, IBM Corp., outsource, IT Commandment, job, information technology, Party Like It
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change
- I've been wracking my brain for a commandment which would fit with the theme this week, and I figured that the commandment "Thou Shalt Recognize the Inherent Superiority of Microsoft Software" might be a tad too partisan, particularly coming from guy who works for Microsoft in its IPTV division (queue...
- Tags: information technology, outsourcing
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Security analysis
- In response to today’s Security Commandment one alert reader asked: Hi Rich, I like the advice! Unfortunately, all my direct reports havereligion about this. My question is, how should I compare platformsin an objective and reproducible fashion? Confused in...
- Tags: security, Mu Security
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt free thy content
- The ZDNet bloggers are doing a series of IT commandments, so I thought I'd join in the fun. I racked my brain trying to think of a 'commandment' that suited my blog's theme of Web 2.0. What I came up with is essentially one of the building blocks...
- Tags: Creative Commons, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not condemn departments doing their own IT
- Thou shalt not try to stop departments from experimenting with web services and developing skinny applications for their own uses.The IT department has often been among them the most conservative and change-phobic in the entire company. "That's not the way we do things and we've been doing this 15 years,"...
- Tags: IT-departments, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy network
- You may have noticed recent posts from some of the ZDNet bloggers in a series we're calling IT Commandments. Here's a commandment for any of you responsible for administering your company's network: Turn off Telnet and FTP and use secure protocols to provide access through the...
- Tags: firewall, network
- Blog posts 2006-04-02
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt give something back to the community
- Following in the model of Paul Murphy and Dion Hinchcliffe, here's a commandment for anyone who uses open source software: Give something back. Before I get into the why, I want to take a moment to discuss the what and the how. First, what exactly are you supposed to give...
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2006-04-01
- IT Commandment: Leave the ideology to someone else
- Here is my contribution to the Rules for IT series: Leave the ideology to someone else. Charles Bukowski, the dead poet, is the subject of a fascinating film, Bukowski—Born Into This, that I had on last night while I was working the beta release of our new product. It...
- Tags: formalist, Bukowski
- Blog posts 2006-03-31
- The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other things
- The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other thingsPart of the reason I posted...... was the implicit assumption that a dissatisfied user is going to leap onto the internet, find the right software, etc. for his purposes, program, and do his work on his own private system.Leaving aside...
- Tags: Channel management, Development tools, Scripting languages, GUI programming, AJAX, Web, Web 2.0, exponential factor, Hinchcliffe, Web programming, IT Commandment
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- IT Commandment: Put thy users first, above all else
- While the concept of IT commandments sounds rigid and inflexible to me, I will admit there are some core truths that should almost never be violated. Fellow ZDNetter Paul Murphy has recently blazed this trail here and here and it's an interesting experiment in seeing what people...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
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