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Cory's new DRM paper

This stuff is important in so many ways. Written for an International Telecommunications Union report on DRM, and pointed directly at the people around the world who are making decisions on which DRM...

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The Failure of Two-Factor?

I think this article by Bruce Schneier may be mis-titled: it should be "The Failure of Understanding of Two-Factor Authentication", because what it is discussing at its core is the fact that two-factor...

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...and a perfect one-two for the link below this one...

MS reveals it's preparing to support two-factor auth, built into Longhorn.Link

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Google Desktop Search security issue?

Touching on a topic we've addressed before: Google Desktop Search. We have in the past maintained (internally) that it is not to be installed on company desktops until its various security concerns are...

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What's in the new IE?

Speculation abounds on what's in and what's out of MS' recently-announced IE7. Tabs? PNG support? CSS 2.0 support? IDN support? An RSS aggregator? Integration with spyware? (See here and here.Hey MS:...

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Visio Cafe

Incredible collection of Visio templates/stencils. Even includes collections specific to Sarbanes-Oxley and Citrix, which is cool.

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Attachment Processor for Outlook

Interesting little app: allows you to automatically extract attachments from your Outlook mailbox and save them to a folder (or set of folders, set by filters and parameters), replacing the file in...

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Why I hate bumper stickers: 2 reasons

I won’t even mention the fact that your life philosophy (at least, the part of it you find so compelling that you need to express it to random strangers on the freeway) can be summarized in 2-8 words...

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This brought back memories

Icons from various OSes, and the things they led/lead to. Neat stuff.Link

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In the bumper sticker vein

Apparently the Secret Service takes bumper stickers far more seriously than I do: according to this story, several people were ejected from one of George Bush's Social Security...

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RIM signs with MS, IBM, Novell for IM

Enterprise-level instant messaging. Quote-unquote. A step better than the late (and not at all missed) Yahoo Enterprise IM, since it appears will work with the handheld devices. Integration with LCS...

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New Microsoft Exchange User Monitor

We could have really used this tool a couple of weeks ago. Announcement here.This seems to also be a really good tool to address the inevitable complaints from users stating that "the server is slow"...

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2005 Internet Attack Trends

For those of you who read Bruce Schneier's blog (http://www.schneier.com/blog/, RSS 1.0 feed at http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf, RSS 2.0 (just excerpts) at...

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High tech vs. low tech ID theft

A point that was brought up in an offline conversation: while at TechEd last week I had a few discussions with companies that claim to "fully protect" your data by doing things like blocking the...

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The rules of engagement

Interesting post by Glenn McDonald on why he feels "stealing" music is justified. Unfortunate choice of word (mostly influenced by the fact that the music companies want you to call it stealing), since...

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Starting a new business

Hmmmm.So how hard is it? A small business, maybe 5-6 employees...? I need to learn pretty quickly. Like most things, I guess the answer is "it depends".Can't say what it's about--I kid myself that I'm...

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MS Helps with the whole browser hijacking problem they helped cause

Can't blame them for trying... I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't go into a little bit more detail on ActiveX awareness, and what the user will see when IE detects or blocks suspicious software....

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Remote support

I'm looking for tools to provide remote tech support to people who aren't necessarily part of a domain that I control, and who might not be happy with someone else installing remote control software on...

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SharePoint complaints

I've long complained (off-line) about the inconsistencies and incompleteness of the current SharePoint implementation. I like the product overall, but it still has too much of a "ver 1.0" feel to it....

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Web insanity

It feels like the bubble all over again. How many services do we have now that are offering stuff for free... in some cases, even without the inane "we'll pay for it all with advertising" mantra that...

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Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On

Yes, Centrify and Vintela allow you to do much much more to integrate your Mac, *nix and Windows environments, but what do the *users* really want? They want Single Sign On. They don't care about the...

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A theory in draft

Just some thoughts from a conversation on parenting, that I had over the weekend. Nothing in here is a final statement of belief.Over thousands/millions of years of evolution, humans (and in fact, one...

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Really Simple Sharing

Ray Ozzie does it again: he's proposed (under a CC license, no less) a new standard that leverages RSS to allow multi-master sharing of the info that you need replicated, with appropriate filters. As...

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Wordpress and the free blogs

Unlike this site, it includes trackbacks. Nice.Look me up at: http://pacheco.wordpress.comOr get your own WordPress blog here

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Free physics text

Edumification wants to be free! Mountain Motion: The Adventure of PhysicsSeems to be a pretty complete text: can’t wait to get to the chapter where they explain the whole unification theory! Ah, here...

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