Top down czar-centric approaches to deal with distributed problems don’t/won’t work.
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Archives for December, 2008
Twelve Word Tuesday: Yet Another Cybersecurity Czar Just Means More of the Same
by John Pescatore | December 9, 2008 | Submit a Comment
You Say Cloud Computing, I Say Tomato
by John Pescatore | December 5, 2008 | 5 Comments
I spoke at the Information Policy Security Advisory Board, a federally mandated body that has been around since 1987 when the Dow Jones average passed 2000 in the upward direction, when a 19 year old private pilot evaded Soviet air defenses and landed in Moscow, and the year when the Simpsons first appeared on TV. [...]
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Techno Thursday: RIM Looks to Buy Certicom
by John Pescatore | December 4, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Information Week reports that RIM, the Blackberry company, has made a $53M unsolicited offer to buy Certicom, the original mover and shaker behind elliptic curve cryptography. With all the recent attention on “Can President Obama ever use a Blackberry again?” it makes a lot of sense for RIM to stay ahead of the curve and [...]
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What I Want For Wednesday: More Error 408
by John Pescatore | December 2, 2008 | 4 Comments
Back in the day, I spent 11 years working for GTE. For those of you who don’t remember back in the day, GTE was a telephone company back in the regulated days when phone companies had to provide reliable dial tones and were measured on the availability of their services. Back in the day, telephone [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Honoring Mumbai
by John Pescatore | December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Anytime anyone says the next major attack will be cyberterrorism, they’re wrong.
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Shocking! Illegal, Unregulated Off-shore Gambling Sites Cheat!
by John Pescatore | December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments
Years ago I did a few consulting projects for the gambling industry (now called the gaming industry, since gaming is not a sin) and some of the state agencies that regulate the casinos and attempt to maintain some trustability in the people and systems used by the gambling gaming industry in their state. The states [...]
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