Bradner: Google: Looking good by doing less evil, 03/20/07
Google says it is going to reduce the length of time it keeps personally identifiable information about users from infinite to merely obscene. There are some positives in this announcement but it mostly emphasizes how bad things are and will continue …
Editorial: Think twice about new security gizmos, 03/22/07
In a recent study about spyware by Nemertes Research, Senior Vice President Andreas Antonopoulos was surprised to find that 16% of the companies examined were not concerned about the threat.
Johnson: Network economics and the Internet backbone, 03/22/07
It’s official: The carriers are not making money operating Internet backbones.
Wireless Security: Hunting down wireless devices doing MAC spoofing, 03/19/07
How do you locate devices when MAC spoofing is occurring?
Insider Threat: Insider threat being blown out of proportion? 03/19/07
I’ve read the recent news about intellectual property breaches at large companies and wondered if the need to protect this data is being blown out of proportion or if my company should be concerned about who has access to what on our network.
Antonopolous: Security and virtualization, 03/19/07
I sometimes find myself talking about a topic and getting blank stares. Then a year or two later, everyone is suddenly talking about it. One such topic is security virtualization. Until now, those two words were seldom seen together. You would have to …
Nutter’s Help Desk: Configuring a switch for link aggregation with a SAN, 03/19/07
We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link aggregation. We will be using a Cisco 3560 Gigabit Ethernet …
Backspin: Verizon’s weird antispam science, 03/16/07
Here in the IT world, we have spam technologies and we have their opposite: antispam technologies. Then we have what Verizon is apparently doing, using mirror antispam technology — what I shall henceforth call Alice-spam technology.
Compendium: Raise your pinky to your lips and say, ‘$1 billion’, 03/16/07
As you probably read last week, that’s how much Viacom wants from Google for alleged copyright infringement by subsidiary YouTube.
Cool Tools: Flipstart ultraportable PC, 03/22/07
The FlipStart ultramobile PC is a two-pound device that offers a full version of Windows XP (or Vista Business). Built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mobile broadband (carrier optional) allow for network connectivity; adding a docking adapter provides for …
Dr. Internet: Setting up a live streaming service, 03/22/07
I need to set up a Webcam stream for a one-time event for 10 to 12 simultaneous remote viewers. We have the camera and computer for shooting the video; how do I set up the server side?
Gearhead: Organizing audio, 03/22/07
When we first started getting a serious collection of digital music we weren’t too fussy about organization. Then we started digitizing our CD collection and the stream of downloaded music (we hasten to add, *legal* downloaded music) turned into a flood.
