I've been thinking a lot about security lately. I'm not sure I'm making any sort of headway. Everybody seems to agree that it is really really important , but I'm willing to bet that just about everybody has a slightly different view of what it actually...

Ah yes, the Evil Empire. A clever moniker when I first heard it has become a remarkably well-known pseudonym. But is it still relevant? I was very interested by an article about this topic in a May issue of The Economist . The main point: “Microsoft...