I Am A Lawyer. I Don’t Have Time For This

November 23, 2005

Michael McDerment tells what amounts to an appalling story of one (Toronto?) lawyer’s remarkably poor manners, and overly complimentary opinion of herself. But perhaps worse — this is not an unusual story. Oh well. Two steps forward, one step back.

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Tom Friedman’s Dirty Little Secrets

November 22, 2005

As I race to the close of The World is Flat, my local library badgering me to return a long-overdue book (there are only so many hours in the day), I’ve reached the book’s strongest chapter. Friedman brings his analysis home by looking at what America needs to do to respond to the many challenges […]

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Hotel (In)security

November 22, 2005

Via Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast I learned of a recent Roger Grimes column in Infoworld that presented this alarming tidbit about the insecurity of hotel broadband: For the past few months an acquaintance of mine has been sniffing various public wireless and wired networks around the world, looking to see what plain text passwords […]

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World, Beta 1

November 22, 2005

PSFK grimaces at the dead-man-walking entrance of Google Analytics into the blogosphere. I agree, and like them have found the trusty Statcounter to be, well, trusty. But this is just another manifestation of the beta-ness of so much of what we use for tools these days. (Can you imagine – Honda Civic 2006, Beta 1?) […]

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“By Accepting This Brick Through Your Window”

November 22, 2005

Groklaw covers the details of the EFF lawsuit against Sony over the rootkit issue (complaint is here), and notes that one of the grounds is unconscionability of the EULA – presumably a necessity to attack, at least at common law, the legitimacy of disclaimers and limitations on liability. But what I find particularly interesting about […]

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Groklaw on Sony

November 22, 2005

Groklaw has posted a Sony page to consolidate all of its coverage on the Sony rootkit developments.

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The Public Face of the Rootkit Debacle

November 21, 2005

Michael Geist writes in the Toronto Star this week about the damage Sony has suffered to its reputation because of the rootkit debacle, and how the event has galvanized public attention – and hopefully government action – over TPMs. I’m hopeful too, but it’s also occurred to me that while I’ve read a great deal […]

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Maps of Sony Rootkits

November 20, 2005

Doxpara Research has posted maps of Sony rootkit incidents.

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Lost Thumb Drive Contained Records on 120,000

November 20, 2005

David Fraser covers an incident that is simply unbelievable: I didn’t hear about this incident: Apparently last month, a USB “thumb drive” containing sensitive personal information of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND current and former patients of Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Hawai’i went missing. No word on where it went. The number’s up to 130,000 now. […]

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EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers Updated

November 20, 2005

The EFF has updated its legal guide for bloggers. It’s listed in my page of corporate blogging resources, linked above.

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Skype to Distribute Phones Through Radio Shack in U.S.

November 20, 2005

Skype announced today that it intends to distribute Skype phone gear in Radio Shack stores throughout the U.S. Regardless of what one thinks of the economics of the eBay deal, this is a remarkable accomplishment in such a short period of time.

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The Black Trial and Corporate Governance

November 20, 2005

Much has been made in recent years, particularly since the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley, of the increasing responsibility of corporate directorship. Before that, it was the steadily expanding scope of director’s statutory liability that attracted the attention of board candidates. And in each case, many doom and gloom forecasts were issued about the impact these ‘onerous’ […]

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