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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

card-firms-back-down-on-pci-deadlines

From Computer Weekly:

Visa admitted this week that deadlines for retailers to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which requires firms to adopt a package of security measures, were "unrealistic".
I continue to be fascinated by the PCI/DSS soap opera.

tax-credits-for-telecommuting

The state of Georgia is offering tax credits for setting up telecommuting programs. Find our more at the Clean Air Campaign website.

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I haven't seen many criticisms of the $100 laptop project. It's hard to criticize something that is being done for altruistic reasons. I have always thought that it was not what was needed. Clean water, mosquito netting, text books, schools, things like that seemed more important to me, but since I'm not doing anything (except giving platelets), who am I to talk?

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MSNBC has the a story:

MOSCOW - Intentionally or not, the Russians fed out audio of Thursday’s closed lunch meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, revealing a fractious exchange over the wording of an official Group of Eight statement on Iraq.

congratulations-to-openid

for winning the 2007 Disruptor Award

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