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Category Archives: Security in Popular Culture
Anonymity on the Web … Good or Bad
February 22, 2011 – 6:00 am
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How do you feel about anonymity on the Web? Is it a good thing or is it bad? Of course, it depends …
Like most other technologies, “anonymization” can be used for good or evil. But who is going to be the judge, the arbiter of appropriate behavior? It very much depends on your…
What Do They NOT Know?
January 31, 2011 – 6:00 am
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And the answer is … less and less. The Wall Street Journal’s series “What They Know,” which is an exposé of privacy “violations” on the Web, has been running since July 30, 2010. The thirteenth column in the series was published on December 18, 2010. I previously mentioned this…
Privacy? What Privacy?
November 1, 2010 – 6:00 am
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It is unusual for the popular (as opposed to technical) press and particularly for The Wall Street Journal to publish a multipart series on the topic of privacy. But the WSJ did it in “What They Know: A Wall Street Journal Investigation” And I think they did a pretty good job. You can find…
If Your Cyber is Shocked, Wave
March 15, 2010 – 6:00 am
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CNN broadcast (and rebroadcast, and rebroadcast …) a desktop exercise conducted in Washington DC on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In this simulation exercise, the cell phone networks are brought down by a virulent virus, electrical power grids in the Eastern side…
A-Buzz About Google
March 1, 2010 – 6:00 am
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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.”…