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Archive for the 'Computerworld' Category

Week in review

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

This was a crazy week. Here’s a quick rundown:
Wal-Mart eavesdropping situation
On Tuesday, I submitted a feature to Computerworld providing speculation related to the recent Wal-Mart eavesdropping situation. For those following the situation, I refer you to 4 significant articles:

The initial story
My take on what may have happened (human nature run amuck)
Fired employee speaks out
LA […]

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Multimedia 911 security concerns

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I just posted at my Computerworld blog about how New York City is in the process of enabling their 911 systems to receive images and video from cell phone callers.  I think that this is a huge leap forward – but I am circumspect regarding the security of any proprietary systems involved in enabling this […]

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StolenID Search follow-up

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

A couple days ago I wrote about StolenID Search in my Computerworld blog.  Since then I’ve noticed that I was a bit late in the game in analyzing this.  Folks like Martin Mckeay, AndyITGuy, Dana Epp, and others heard about the service and have similar postings.
I even see that Scott Mitic, CEO of TrustedID, tried […]

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My first Computerworld post

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Computerworld has been gracious enough to allow me to do some blogging for them. The link to my area is http://Computerworld.com/blogs/perrycarpenter. I just uploaded my first post for them (a short rant regarding Rep. George Miller’s appearance within Second Life).
I appreciate any feedback that readers have regarding this blog or my efforts for […]

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