Technology
Unacceptable, unacceptable, unacceptable
I think Chris Chant has hit the nail on the head with his recent Institute of Government piece. “It is unacceptable at this point in time to not know the true cost of a service and the real exit costs from those services: the costs commercially, technically and from a business de-integration standpoint. So, how [...]
Security utopia
The problem I’ve most often met in building secure systems is that this particular subject seems to bring out the utopian in people like no other. This ‘should’ happen, that ‘should’ happen, its unfair or wrong or wicked that such and such is allowed to continue. Well, yes. But what are we actually going to [...]
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
A superb piece from TED.com with Ralph Langer clearly explaining the internal workings of Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon.
Sender Policy Framework and DomainKeys Identified Mail
E-mail – I love to hate it. I could write so much about what is wrong, on so many levels, with e-mail. That’s another matter for another time. But even with problematic e-mail corporations and enterprises have come to rely on e-mail to support, or even build and maintain their business processes. There’s a lot [...]
