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oracle-buys-thor
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Oracle bought Thor, which I thought was very interesting. As Pete Lindstrom pointed out, it was a busy week for security-related acquisitions. This post at Digital ID World (hat tip to Venture Chronicles sums up my thoughts. I wonder if Oracle will go after RSA? I have my doubts. Oracle is just really going after Sun, IBM, etc.password-equivalence
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
There's a nice discussion about password systems over at Educated Guess work. Since WiKID is a type of public key-based authentication system, I'm always interested when someone points out their superiority ;).one-laptop-per-child-soldier
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
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?
forget-air-marshalls-its-time-for-air-cavaliers
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Due to the dramatic increase in passengers carrying 4 foot swords on US commercial aircraft, it is time we dropped the Air Marshall program and instituted the Air Cavaliers. I might be biased , but I think it would be much more dramatic. The Air Cavaliers would be under cover of course, but when danger appeared they would remove their peasant costume in a flourish to reveal their grandiose Cavalier regalia.
flaw-in-mail-list-compromises-password-file
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
There are a number of things that make passwords increasingly unusable. One of the biggest problems with passwords is that you're supposed to use different ones for different systems. It's a no-no to use the same password in multiple places because if one gets compromised, then the other systems are compromised.
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