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Tom Ridge: gotta love VoIP, but intercepts are necessary

Tom Ridge: gotta love VoIP, but intercepts are necessarySome leading VoIP providers work with law enforcement alreadyGreat article. Readers interested in how VoIP providers are already making strides in helping FBI/law enforcement should also check out RNKVoIP CEO Richard Koch's column 'Criminal Activity Through VoIP: Addressing the Misuse of your...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, VoIP company, Tom Ridge

Discussion threads 2006-01-27

Tom Ridge: gotta love VoIP, but intercepts are necessary

Yesterday at the VoIP 2.0 IP Telephony show in Fort Lauderdale, former Department of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge spread a little bit of that VoIP love. That's Secretary Ridge up there- photo by TMCNet.In his keynote address, Ridge noted the capability of local governments in and around New Orleans...

Tags: VoIP, Tom Ridge

Blog posts 2006-01-27

Ask Tom Ridge or bust

Ask Tom Ridge or bustEye-glazing techSo, nobody cares about cybersecurity because there's no political advantage to it. Not false, just incomplete.Tech issues are boringly technical. And when people hear about it, they flash to all the stuff they've avoided doing on their home pc, and het away from...

Tags: Needed, Tech Issues, security, cybersecurity, Tom Ridge

Discussion threads 2004-10-08

Additional Resources

YouTube = AdTube. Why Not?

View Yellow Book ads here You probably don't go to YouTube at this point to amuse yourself with video clips from Rita's Roofing on Long Island or the Living Sea Aquarium in Park Ridge, Ill. But they're coming. YouTube earlier this...

Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-07

News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Aid agencies seeking help for Asia

Aid agencies seeking help for AsiaoverblownBig deal. America has already killed at least 100,000 Iraqis. And this wasn't some natural disaster, it was young kids shooting and bombing an innocent people. Well, at least America is "freeing" them..even if there'll be no one left alive to enjoy the new "democracy"..Why?Why...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, agency, fanatic, Saddam, Kurds, Human Rights, civilian death

Discussion threads 2004-12-28

Taking Microsoft for a spin?

Taking Microsoft for a spin?Micosoft adds new meaning....to the word CRASH!!!No wayOk, I'm a loyal MS user, and this is way too far even for me. I don't want ANY system subject to compromise in my vehicle. The best thing about automobile computers now is that they are...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Manufacturing, OPEN SOURCE, Micosoft, Wengert, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-10-21

Homeland security--Throwing money at technology

Homeland security--Throwing money at technologyEven my small county has seen it.Our local Sheriffs department received unsolicited a grant of around $22,000 for "homeland security". The sheriff asked me if I had any idea on how it should be spent. Not many terrorists out here in farm country, no...

Tags: homeland security

Discussion threads 2004-10-18

Microsoft, biometrics firm to tackle homeland security

Microsoft, biometrics firm to tackle homeland securityHeaven Help us!!!NBDo they requirethe use of MS Internet Explorer?They better rename themselves to "Homeland Insecurity"Can I get a refund on my taxes? I don't want them to run any Microsoft products- nothing like protecting oneself from a terroristic operating system...Tom "Adolf" Ridge...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, biometrics, homeland security, Microsoft Corp., SAFLink

Discussion threads 2004-07-07

Ashcroft says surveillance powers should stand

Ashcroft says surveillance powers should standthe Internet is in no danger of disappearing...I just wish Ashcroft, Bush, and the so-called Patriot Act would disappear.Abuse of Pat ActWhat many people find objectionable is using the pat act to protect the likes of the RIAA. It is this broad expansion of...

Tags: Ashcroft, liberty

Discussion threads 2004-01-30

Net flight bookings--a terror casualty?

Net flight bookings--a terror casualty?There is no "war on terror"!How terrorized can this country really be when our current government officials purposely let the 9/11 attacks take place. Bush gets numerous [i]credible[/i] security warnings, even detailing the type of attack which would occur using planes, and then goes on to...

Tags: Mr Blunkett, security

Discussion threads 2004-01-12

Feds get a 'D' in computer security

Feds get a 'D' in computer securityThe Sensible SolutionWhy not do for the government what private industries do for themselves in this area? Private industry hires expert security services that spend all day long hacking into their system and discover all of the potential weaknesses. They then make...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, Viruses and worms, NSA, perpetrator, government, security, computer, computer security

Discussion threads 2003-12-09