Michael Santarcangelo delivers Awareness that Works™
by Ioana Justus If you were asked to throw a few million dollars out the window, would you do it? If yes, let me know where and when – I’ll happily wait outside with my catcher’s mitt. More likely, the quick answer to this question is a resounding “NO”. Few circumstances would lead someone to [...]
by Carl Anctil Background: A few months ago, Microsoft released (and silently installed through Windows Update) a .NET Framework Assistant add-on for the Firefox web browser. Microsoft installed this add-on to Firefox without warning the user that the add-on would be installed as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Security professionals, bloggers, [...]
by Dennis Kuntz There was a little bit of a buzz recently regarding an article on Slate called, “Unchain the Office Computers! Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want”. It’s basically a litany of complaints about how the IT department, “that class of interoffice Brahmans,” decides “ridiculously and capriciously, how people [...]
by James Costello It was a dark and stormy… All right, it was a sunny morning in April when the first event to inspire this article occurred. I was walking back to my car after dropping off my daughter at school. As I walked around to the driver side I noticed a battered USB thumb [...]
by Aaron Titus Georges-Pierre Seurat was a 19th century French painter credited with starting Neo-impressionism and developing a painting technique called “pointillism.” His famous painting, La Parade, contains the detail on the right: A complicated series of blue, orange, pink, red, black, and yellow dots that together create a man’s profile. This detail is the [...]
A colleague recently asked me, “When did my personal information become someone’s property?” It’s a question with a vital answer, because if my personal information belongs to someone else, then they can do whatever they want with it. If data is property, then they can buy, sell, license, or give away my identity without my [...]
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