* Cisco eyes larger internal role for Linux desktops * Q&A: Reed Hundt's take on carrier mergers * Researchers find security flaw in SHA-1 algorithm * Cisco's Chambers urges system-wide security * Today on Layer 8
Cisco was among the first companies to really embrace VoIP. Now everyone is either doing it or seriously looking at it. At this week’s LinuxWorld conference, one of Cisco’s internal IT managers talked about why he has already converted 2,000 of Cisco’s desktops to Linux. Does this mean we’ll all be running Linux desktops in a few years? Cisco eyes larger internal role for Linux desktops http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0216cislinux.html?net
Cisco was among the first companies to really embrace VoIP. Now everyone is either doing it or seriously looking at it. At this week’s LinuxWorld conference, one of Cisco’s internal IT managers talked about why he has already converted 2,000 of Cisco’s desktops to Linux. Does this mean we’ll all be running Linux desktops in a few years?
Cisco eyes larger internal role for Linux desktops
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0216cislinux.html?net
Q&A: Reed Hundt’s take on carrier mergers
SBC and AT&T, Verizon and MCI, Sprint and… somebody. The old world of the carriers is evaporating faster than you can say, “Reach out and touch someone.” Is this what the 1996 Telecom Reform Act was supposed to be about? We posed that question to former FCC chairman Reed Hundt, who talks candidly about what current chairman Michael Powell’s actions mean for the industry.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2005/0216qahundt.html?net
Researchers find security flaw in SHA-1 algorithm
Security experts are warning that a security flaw has been found in a popular and powerful data encryption algorithm, dubbed SHA-1, by a team of scientists from Shandong University in China. The three scientists are circulating a paper within the cryptographic research community that describes successful tests of a technique that could greatly reduce the speed with which SHA-1 could be compromised.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0216reseafind.html?net
Cisco’s Chambers urges system-wide security
Cisco President and CEO John Chambers Wednesday told attendees at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that in security, point products just won’t do the job.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0216rsa-cis.html?net
Today on Layer 8, are you picking up what we’re laying down?
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