Archive for February, 2003

From the department of high numbers

Posted in Security on February 5th, 2003 Comments Off

When looking for the original press release beyond this article (lnk through Doug Kaye), at IDC home page I found original market size figures for web services but also for security. Even though I know that the resulting comparison is probably misleading (like total apples v total pears market size), I could not resist putting the […]

UK ID cards farce

Posted in Security on February 3rd, 2003 Comments Off

Small recap of the progress of the ID cards consultation:

Phase 1. Home Office issues a consultation paper on entitlement (AKA ID) cards.
Phase 2. Nobody except IT vendors seems to be bothered by the consultation. A month before the deadline government says that most of the public seem to be positive about the scheme.
Phase 3. Privacy […]

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