Monday, September 15, 2008

...because...

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008091505565341

Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week

Monday, September 15 2008 @ 05:56 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews

A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.

Source - Chronicles of Dissent



Perhaps not the most unbiased of sources?

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/15/0228209&from=rss

Microsoft Says IE8 Phoning Home Is "Pretty Innocuous"

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 14, @11:53PM from the unlike-that-other-browser dept. Internet Explorer Microsoft Privacy

CWmike writes

"Microsoft has defended the IE8 tool that suggests sites based on URLs typed into its address bar, saying that the browser 'phones home' only a limited amount of information to Microsoft and that the company discards all user IP addresses almost immediately. Company managers also contrasted IE8 Beta 2's 'Suggested Sites' feature with the 'Suggest' feature used by Google Chrome, saying that Microsoft's requires the user's explicit permission before it's used. They did acknowledge a bug that prevents the request from reappearing when users reinstall the browser. Cyra Richardson, a Microsoft principal program manager on the IE team, said: 'Suggested Sites is connected to the browser's history, and it's not looking at each of the keystrokes. IE only captures the URL as it is navigated [to], when that URL goes into your history.' Nor does Suggested Sites log and transmit cookies to Microsoft's servers, as does Google Suggest, Richardson said. 'The data we log is actually pretty innocuous.'"



Interesting, even if the author is an anti-copyright activist.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/

The Future of Copyright

by Rasmus Fleischer Lead Essay June 9th, 2008



It occurs to me that if we were to 'find and replace' all occurances of 'the Great Satan' with (Obama/McCain) it might read like a (McCain/Obama) campaign ad.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/15/0239253&from=rss

10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 15, @02:27AM from the portraits-in-extremism dept.

DragonFire1024 lets us know that Wikileaks has obtained 10 years of messages and interviews by Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. The documents were translated and the messages and interviews were authenticated by the US CIA.

"The nearly three hundred page, 'official use only' packet from 2004, translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a division of the CIA, includes interviews with bin Laden from various news agencies and also includes messages he sent directly to the US from the periods of 1994 to 2004. One message includes bin Laden's denial of having anything to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania."



A list of the obvious? If so, why does IT keep screwing up?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/38FE-20-IT-mistakes_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/38FE-20-IT-mistakes_1.html

20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Fall prey to any one of these common IT blunders and watch your company's prospects suffer -- not to mention your own

By Neil McAllister September 15, 2008



Have we tipped? Remember, each new technology must re-learn the lessons of earlier technologies.

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080915060849713

Pew study: cloud computing popular, privacy worries linger

Monday, September 15 2008 @ 06:08 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews

A new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life project, released Friday morning at Google's Washington, DC headquarters, finds cloud computing applications taking off among Internet users. But respondents also told pollsters that they have profound concerns about ways their personal data might be used—among them, the kind of ad-targeting practiced by... Google.

Source - Ars Technica

[From the article:

Perhaps more surprising is that 68 percent of respondents who said they'd used cloud services declared that they would be "very" concerned, and another 19 percent at least "somewhat" concerned, if their personal data were analyzed to provide targeted advertising. This, of course, is precisely what many Web mail services, such as Google's own Gmail, do—which implies that at least some of those who profess to be "very" concerned about the practice are probably nevertheless subjecting themselves to it.

... Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology pointed out that courts have traditionally refused to recognize any Fourth Amendment privacy interest in information turned over to third-party institutions, such as banks. Schwartz warned that as "cloud" storage of personal data and documents becomes more prevalent, this formal distinction would dilute privacy protections unless courts took steps to "bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century."

[The Study: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/262/report_display.asp

“Cloud computing” takes hold as 69% of all internet users have either stored data online or used a web-based software application


Related Allowing organizations to build their own “Cloud”

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/VMware_tries_to_expand_throughout_the_datacenter_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/VMware_tries_to_expand_throughout_the_datacenter_1.html

VMware tries to expand throughout the datacenter

New VMware products help customers build a 'virtual datacenter operating system' and extend virtualization to storage and network equipment

By James Niccolai, IDG News Service September 15, 2008


Related Customized security for each Cloud

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/McAfee_Symantec_ready_VM_security_products_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/15/McAfee_Symantec_ready_VM_security_products_1.html

McAfee, Symantec ready VM security products

McAfee unveils at VMWorld a customizable security suite designed to run within virtual machines; Symantec give show attendees a first peek at its Security Virtual Machine

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service September 15, 2008

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