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Category Archives: Privacy

Net-Witness of the Persecution

– There is an interesting article in the February 18, 2010 Wall Street Journal by Siobhan Gorman, with the title “Hackers Attack 2,411 Firms: Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data; Operation Is Still Running.” It describes how staff of the security services firm, NetWitness,…

A-Buzz About Google

– It appears that the official Google position, as expressed by CEO Eric Schmidt, in a December 3, 2009 interview by Maria (NOT Mario, as The Huffington Post stated) Bartiromo on CNBC, is that if you didn’t want the data to be compromised, you “… maybe you shouldn’t be doing it.”…

Cloud Computing Security at Newsweek

– Daniel Lyons will publish an op-ed on the insecurity of cloud computing in Newsweek’s February 1st, 2010 issue. The  main thrust of the article can be summarized as such: But there is one big, glaring problem with cloud computing, and it just got laid bare in Google’s recent problems…

Classy Data (pt. 2) – Context and Handling

– The category of a particular data item may have been carefully arrived at and cast in concrete, as it were. But data do not live in unchanging isolation, nor are they always used for the same purpose or in the same manner. I recall going through some old papers recently and I found an old…

Classy Data (pt. 1) – Categorization

– How many times have you heard the following? “First classify the data into internal, confidential, secret, etc. This determines how the data should be handled. Then assign a data owner who must approve who has access to the data and what they can do with them. Oh, and by the way, the data owner…