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culture-of-fear

Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago

When you're afraid all the time, inter-company promotional faxes that include a picture of match being lit combined with the coincidental delivery of package are enough to create a bomb scare. Hopefully, this is limited to Massachusetts, but I have my doubts.

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favorite-posts-of-2006

Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago

Here is a list of my favorite posts from 2006. Yes, these are my favorites posts by me and yes, it means I'm phoning it in for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading. I intend to kick off the year with the usual thought-provoking, yet not well-thought out

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the-tenth-reason-to-embrace-two-factor

Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago

To add to the Top 9 Reasons to Embrace Two-Factor Authentication We now have Number 10:

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risk-and-effectiveness-for-project-evaluation

Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago

Gunnar Peterson has a post from Metricon about Bryan Ware's presentation about combining the effectiveness of a solution and the risk involved. I couldn't find the link to the actualy presentation. (I didn't have the time to go through them all.)

I think I would tie the effectiveness of the proposed security solution to the cost of capital of the overall project. It would be interesting to tie Bryan's work with my "work" on estimating the cost of capital for an information security project.

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identity-theft-the-nanny-state-and-ambulance

Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago

Mordaxus at Emergent Choas has an inciteful post on how the government can protect people from identity theft.

I can think of a situation we need protection from. Here is a scenario. Let us take the case of a lender, Larry. We need a law to make it so that if Larry lends money to Alice, he cannot try to collect it from Bob. That's all we need. If we have that, we'll have all the legal protection we need to solve identity theft.
This is an interesting idea, but I fear that it is too simplistic. I suspect that this is the current law. The problem is really the burden of proof. Currently, Bob has to prove to Larry that he did not borrow the money. Larry gets to put all sorts of nastiness onto Bob's credit report that Bob will never be able to get off. Bob can sue Larry, butas mordaxus points out, the way to change the business practice is to make it not worthwhile, which means a class-action lawsuit.

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