We wanted to get a quick gauge of what our readers feel the most significant threat to the security model of our Internet community has been so far this year. Although we don’t support the idea necessarily of one-upping between researchers, realizing that this shouldn’t be a race/competition, but we do realize that there is an end result in impact across the industry and that momentum abroad can be measured.
Loading ...Quick thought, I was listening to MSNBC this morning and I stumbled upon a statement by a correspondent that identified her as attending a party for most of the night yesterday evening (something that is fairly common at the DNC/RNC where food, beverage and entertainment are usually free on tap) that was sponsored by the One Campaign group and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Why is this significant? I’ll tell you. Continue reading ‘RIAA Lobbies at DNC’
In a quick post reflecting on Chris Wysopal’s commentary related to a article from our friends at Veracode, I would agree that their security model was flawed, but perhaps disagree from a business perspective in MBTA’s decision to attempt to silence the three MIT students exposing a gaping security flaw. Continue reading ‘MBTA Put Profit Before Security’
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As the 2008 Beijing Olympics loom closer, the perceived threat of open international journalism on the Internet in the eyes of China increases dramatically. Who would have thought that the Chinese government would have been so open to a free accessibility to a unfiltered, unfettered Internet? Apparently the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing/planning body of the Olympic games, foolish as that may have been to surmise from the vague conditions put forth by the Chinese government in it’s bid to claim these Olympic games. Perhaps the IOC never heard of the infamous ‘Great Firewall of China’? Continue reading ‘Chinese Pervasive Censorship Culture’
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