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I hope I’m not the only one who sometimes pre-judges a link based on how sent it to them. I know better but still when I first viewed this link to a video about ordering pizza in the future I thought to myself “This is a polemic against Obama, the Democrats
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January 28th, 2009 is the second annual Data Privacy Day. Intel has a great information page about this day and includes this explanation: Designed to raise awareness and generate discussion about data privacy practices and rights, Data Privacy Day activities
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It’s rare when you can get a bunch of software people to agree on much of any thing. Just think of all the programming language wars going on and the debates over what browser or operating systems to use. So when I hear that a bunch of experts have agreed
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I was checking the Microsoft Learning blog the other day and saw this announcement of some free eBooks as Microsoft Press continues its 25th Anniversary eBook giveaway. The books below are only available until December 24th so grab them now if they look
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So long time readers know that I am not a fan of filtering of the Internet in schools. My wife is a librarian who enthusiastically marks Banned Books Week every year for the chance to discuss censorship with her students so its a family thing I guess.
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Last week I was down at Pace University in New York City where I gave the opening keynote talk for a high school computer forensics competition. I had a very attentive audience for my talk but I also I really enjoyed seeing/hearing the presentations the
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About 25 years ago, back in the mini-computer era, I was a developer in an operating system group. My team was working on a brand new print and batch spooling system. We were creating a system with a lot more power and flexibility than the previous system.
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I just found a new web site that collects a lot of existing security information and adds some new stuff in a pretty interesting and dare I say fun format. The HelloSecureWorld web site is new and " brings non traditional ways to provide security awareness
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Well October was an interesting month. In some cases I was pretty good at predicting which posts would get the most interest and in others I was pretty far off. I did think that the free download book on creating websites that sell would be popular but
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I've run into lots of security talk lately. I visited a school last week where the programming teacher is having some issues because the IT department wanted him to try letting them manage the lab's new computers. Sort of "let's see if it makes things
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