Optimistic projections based on the Arab Spring strike me as dated, given that "peaceful" revolution was followed by violence and another change of leadership in Egypt, followed by more turmoil.
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Mobile carriers not only do not add value to mobile phones, but it seems they diminish it by failing to certify Android updates in a timely manner. Why do we have mobile carriers again?
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I wonder whether in ten years we'll see a kinetic attack in response to an online attack. At some point, countries are going to resolve to do something about online actions that do meaningful economic harm.
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I remember how some people in the computer industry being turned off by the Web browser. It was such a dumb, inadequate user interface. "We're going backwards," they said. The lesson to remember is that the computer industry...
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Heartland Payment Systems began working with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center in 2009 after was it by a major breach. Sharing threat information may be a worthy idea, but it doesn't seem...
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The analogy is somewhat fair, though while Napster clearly violated copyright law, I don't think Bitcon is illegal outside of separate incidents of money laundering or other financial crimes. The thing I find difficult...
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I'm inclined to agree, Wyatt. TCP/IP should be celebrated too.
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Agreed -- it's smart when the CIA does it with In-Q-Tel and it's smart here. However, let's not hold our breath waiting for this administration to get a lick of credit for working smart in a public/private manner.
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Given EMC, SAN seems like the least threatening move for VMware to take here. Extended out, though, does this strategy call the whole VCE/Vblock alliance into question?
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Kelly, Don't you think information is being exchanged informally among CISOs already, at various venues? How much difference will a formal forum make -- in fact, couldn't it backfire by becoming a target?
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Where there's money and power, there's corruption. Criminals go where the money is, after all. Today credit card data and Bitcoin, tomorrow, sell an election to the highest bidder by manipulating the voting system with enough...
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What do you think of the Bitcoin/Napster comparison, readers? Will the second movers be more likely to win your trust?
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If the hospital is sufficiently worried about medical errors (and lawsuits), its managers ought to be paying attention to issues like fatigue.
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I also see XP running widely in retail and hospitality settings. Given the current data breach climate for retail, this seems extra worrisome.
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This story oofers a good example of how a transformational technology move that saves the Army money, makes great management and security sense, can still get caught in limbo because of budget constraints. It also...
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@Whoopty, This particular column was about using wearables to track the hospital workforce, not the patients, although any system that tracked factors like fatigue would by definition be recording some health relevant data...
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Is the big-picture that you store your cryptocurrency offline, then when you want to spend some, you move it into a "DMZ" or airlock en route to the payee? Only a small amount is vulnerable, and only for a short period of...
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"In particular, the report accused the nine data brokers under investigation -- including Experian -- of operating 'behind a veil of secrecy.'" No kidding. I wouldn't be a fan of Experian even if this breach hadn't occurred....
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Most ATMs do run Windows XP. It's the version for embedded devices which has far fewer security holes to begin with, but that is the predominant operating system. At some point, they will have to be replaced. I don't envy...
In reply to: Re: Healthcare scare?
Currently all the furor over Bitcoins assumes it will the top player in the growing field. But anyone can create another Bitcoin protocol, each upgrading either the protocol's flaws or flaws in the human component:...
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I'm going to print up a T-shirt for my mother: One Of The Proud 13%
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