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Archive for the 'Huh?' Category

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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I’m a big fan of Gary McGraw’s Silver Bullet Security podcast.  Last week I listened to episode 9 which featured an interview with Bruce Schneier (of whom I am also a big fan).  
I was a bit taken back when Bruce said that, in today’s world, “security is all about technology.”  To be fair, he did […]

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More insanity

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Imagine my surprise when I read the news today and saw that now Senator John McCain is now echoing the futile insanity proposed by those in charge of MySpace. His bill is called the Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act and, if passed, will require sex offenders to register their email and IM […]

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Can it work?

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Robert Lemos of SecurityFocus posted an article today entitled “MySpace teams to create sex-offender database.”  Here is a brief excerpt of the article:
Under the joint initiative, Sentinel, the products-focused subsidiary of Sentinel Tech Holding, will build and maintain a monolithic database of the United States’ 550,000 registered sex offenders, while MySpace will develop technology for […]

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