U.S Anti-MuniWiFi Bill Introduced

June 6, 2005

Representative Pat Sessions (R-Texas) (oddly enough!), has introduced the fatuously named “Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005”, a bill to “prohibit state and local governments from providing any telecommunications or information service that is “substantially similar” to services provided by private companies.” Via Michael Geist’s BNA Internet Law News. From MobilePipeline: The bill, HR […]

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Small is the New Big

June 5, 2005

This can’t be a coincidence. Seth Godin posts on small being the new big, and Larry Bodine posts on the abrupt resurrection of mid-sized law firms (something I’ve been expecting for a while now).

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Tagging

June 4, 2005

Here are three great posts by Alexandra Samuel on tagging, including workflow implications. One of the posts is the full version of an article she wrote for the Toronto Star.

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Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market

June 4, 2005

In April Deloitte Consulting released a report on outsourcing that calls into question some of the claimed benefits. From the executive summary: The world’s largest companies have engaged in outsourcing for a variety of reasons: to reduce costs, expand capabilities, and increase flexibility. However, contrary to the optimistic portrayal of outsourcing by vendors and the […]

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The Power of Silence

June 4, 2005

Tom Evslin has a great post on the power of silence in negotiation.

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The Race to the Top

June 4, 2005

Tom Friedman writes again on the Flat World (see other posts on this topic here) – this time, on the occasion of French and Dutch rejection of the EU constitution, he looks at the trouble ahead for European economies, grown fat and lazy on 35 hour work weeks and 6 week vacations, trying to cope […]

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Identity Theft in Europe

June 4, 2005

David Fraser links to a MSN Money article on why identity theft is not the problem in Europe that it is in North America. To quote David’s summary: Security numbers are for Social Security — period. Information is kept private. Credit bureaus aren’t wide open. Credit isn’t king. The article also notes that the European […]

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Next Gen WiFi

June 4, 2005

AP has an article that describes the current state of play of the next generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11n.

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New Bluetooth Security Flaw – Not So Much?

June 3, 2005

That was fast.  Bryan Hall has posted a comment to my entry on the newly discovered security flaw in bluetooth essentially saying that the risk is overblown.  Details at Bryan’s blog.

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Major Bluetooth Security Flaw Found

June 3, 2005

New Scientist is reporting what appears to a serious security flaw in the bluetooth protocol. The flaw allows a hacker to force device pairing at will, and key discovery apparently takes less than .06 seconds on a Pentium IV. This is not the security flaw found in February. Via jkontherun. Bruce Schneier covers it here. […]

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More on Ransomware

June 3, 2005

Adam Young sent me a note today with a link to his article yesterday on Newsfactor about the recent Ransomware episode – it provides a detailed review of the history of the research into this issue and some ominous notes about what the future may hold.

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A New Level of Coordination in Malware – the Birth of “Sithware”?

June 3, 2005

Every week a new wonder and a new worry. The worry of the week is a malware attack that Computer Associates calls a “remarkably sophisticated attack” – essentially, a coordinated attack using multiple pieces of malware to ‘zombify’ affected PC’s. I’d like to coin a new phrase, please. Something to describe truly depraved malware attacks. […]

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