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A group called Initiative for Software Choice has said in short according to CNET that it would be dangerous for the government to use “Open source” software. Open source being software that is free and modifiable by a community of contributors, such as Linux as opposed to proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows.
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OK, so Microsoft had 65 security issues disclosed this year. How many did you hear about? If you are like most Windows users you might have heard about one or two from the news media, most likely around the time evil hackers were exploiting them. I hard about them all because I’m subscribed to several security mailing list and I don’t even use Windows!
Microsoft is trying making an effort to notify those that count, the people who actually use their products! That might be you, check out the CNN article HERE
Continue reading ‘Microsoft & Security: Helping you understand’
I don’t know what is more suprising. The fact that the Pentagon proposed a grand modifcation to the way Internet traffic flows in order to keep track of where people were going and what they are doing online or that it was shot down early on by people who knew better?
John Markoff broke the story in the NY Times. Check it out here and tell me what you think.
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On CSPAN November 30th
I never really had any desire to publish a book or to talk about, let alone write about my life. For me there was nothing special about growing up the way that I did. I had a family who loved me and friends I could count on. My situation was no worst then those around me.
In fact the book came about when I pitched an idea for a documentary about hackers to two people whom unbeknownst to me had ties to the publishing industry. It was to be a documentary that painted a true picture of hacker culture and its ties to the security community, dispelling the most common myths about hackers and what it meant to be a hacker.
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