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“One reader asked where our right to privacy was written down, and the short and easy answer is that it isn’t, at least not specifically. Most court rulings involving privacy have come from reading between the lines, which is why so many pronouncements involving privacy are controversial.” [Infoworld]
What causes further controversies is the fact that
the […]
Posted in Security on March 9th, 2002 Comments Off
Interesting themes from RSA Conference
Sep 11 has not produced real increase in demand for security except in some niches such as disaster recovery and biometrics. My experience from working in IT security services basically confirms this.
Host-based security is getting priority over perimeter protection.
Web Services are new, complicated and well, not secure
[Information Security]
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O’Reilly’s Brief on Identity
“Today’s Internet may be likened to a vast neighborhood of speakeasies, its citizens boggled by the plethora of usernames and passwords they’re forced to juggle. Ideally, users would pass through a single sign-on point to assume their online identity.…The holy grail is a unified, decentralized, simple-yet-flexible, secure, pseudonym-centric identity, membership, and preferences […]