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My first experience with Square Credit Card Processing

My first experience with Square Credit Card Processing

By Dan Morrill on March 7, 2011

Over the weekend we participated in a local comic book convention, and always there is some new gadget even at conventions where people might not think that there is going to be high technology.

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Product reviews | Tagged android, credit card, financial services, iphone, Misc Technology, square, square payment | 4 Responses

Master Switch by Tim Wu

Master Switch by Tim Wu

By Dan Morrill on November 15, 2010

Every so often I get a really good advance copy of a book that makes you think about what length companies will go to keep their competitive advantage. Very few if any company will cannibalize a working business model and product in favor of something …

Posted in Technology | Tagged book review, Misc Technology | 2 Responses

Our one big hope for the future Military Technology

Our one big hope for the future Military Technology

By Dan Morrill on October 5, 2010

Today the Pentagon said that they needed to move away from Fossil Fuels, and much like the rocketry that allowed us to go to the moon, much like the internet that is disrupting hundreds of business models, the military going green might be the way to p…

Posted in Technology | Tagged air force, army, coast guard, fossil fuel, green, liability, marines, military, Misc Technology, navy, solar, us military

Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?

Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?

By Dan Morrill on September 20, 2010

What is not part of the argument online is that I have almost daily offers to sell out my friends contact information for some cool stuff like the chance to win an Ipad, or other such shiny new toy.

Posted in Security | Tagged candy bar, email, facebook, free, giveaway, ipad, Misc Technology, privacy

Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud

Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud

By Dan Morrill on September 14, 2010

Over the last year I have been working on a project for where I work to see just what the threat level was for systems in the “cloud”.

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, cloud security, Misc Technology, Prezi, research, risk, risk management, Security | 1 Response

How to prove you are working when you are working from home

How to prove you are working when you are working from home

By Dan Morrill on June 9, 2010

A friend of mine recently got a job in Taiwan and he is fortunate enough to work from home and fly out there for one week a month. The problem is that his boss is worried that he might not be putting in eight hours a day when he is working from home and wants […]

Posted in General | Tagged boss, bosses, email, employment, meta data, Misc Technology, proof, proxy, proxy server, vpn, Working from home | 1 Response

Fat and Bloated is no way to go through life

Fat and Bloated is no way to go through life

By Dan Morrill on June 3, 2010

Google officially announces Chrome OS’s arrival date as this fall, HP purchases Palm and promptly kills off an Ipad like device with Windows as an operating system, and Apple announces that 2 million IPads have sold in 60 days with rumors that the Ipad is killing Netbooks. Fat and Bloated operating systems (regardless of the […]

Posted in Design | Tagged Apple, chrome os, googke, innovation, ipad, microsoft, Misc Technology | 1 Response

10 things to think about with Cloud Computing and Forensics

10 things to think about with Cloud Computing and Forensics

By Dan Morrill on March 11, 2010

I was recently invited to write the first chapter of an upcoming book about cloud computing and computer/network forensics. While I am excited about being published, and of course you should go buy the book when it comes out Cloud Computing forensics needs to have a wider discussion in the information security field, as there […]

Posted in Design | Tagged cloud computing, forensics, Misc Technology, network, paradigm, process, security engineer, shift, thinking, virtualization | 1 Response

Seven Deadly Sins in Cloud Computing Security

Seven Deadly Sins in Cloud Computing Security

By Dan Morrill on March 4, 2010

A few days back the Cloud Security Alliance released their paper on the Seven Deadly Sins for Cloud Computing Security. This is a very good guide for security engineers to at least read. The more traditionally minded will ignore it, but those who are working in the cloud space, this gives us something to talk […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, cloud security alliance, computing, csa, information security, infosec, Misc Technology, Security, security engineer, virtualization, VM | 1 Response

Telecoms unite against Apple

By Dan Morrill on February 15, 2010

Apple faces the combined ire of 24 of the worlds telecom companies who want to start their own application store so that people that download applications to their phones and make more money off the applications that they are currently trying to support. Apple should buy T-Mobile or some other telecom, much like Google is […]

Posted in Design, Mobile | Tagged Apple, applications, ATT, companies, consumers, Misc Technology, mobile, t-mobile, telecom, verizon

Facebook Cyber Stalking

Facebook Cyber Stalking

By Dan Morrill on February 8, 2010

I picked up a couple of Facebook stalkers over the last couple of weeks and have been debating how to handle it. Cyber stalking is not a new thing; it has been going on for a very long time and resulted in broken lives, hurt people, and people who retreat back into their non-internet ways. […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cyber stalking, downside, facebook, friend, Misc Technology, people, social networking, stalking | 3 Responses

Lessons Learned from Cloud Camp Seattle 2010

Lessons Learned from Cloud Camp Seattle 2010

By Dan Morrill on February 4, 2010

Last night I got to attend cloud camp, which is an “unevent” that people can attend to meet up with people who are looking into a particular technology for business. Cloud Camp Seattle was held at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, which provided an awesome environment to discuss cloud computing with 200 of like-minded people. For […]

Posted in Security | Tagged architecture, cloud, cloud camp, cloud computing, computing, controls, Design, information security, Misc Technology, programming, seattle, software | 1 Response

How HP could give IBM a run for its money in Cloud Computing Security

By Dan Morrill on January 26, 2010

HP starts offering a unified Cloud and in local data center security package that aims to take on IBM directly. With the deals that HP has been making with Microsoft and using the skills and talents that came along with HP’s acquisition of EDS, this just might end up being an interesting race to the […]

Posted in Infrastructure, Security | Tagged azure, data, hp, IBM, information security, microsoft, Misc Technology, Security

Can regulators keep up with Cloud Computing?

By Dan Morrill on January 25, 2010

We all know them almost by heart, PCI, SAS-70, HIPPA, SOX, and the ton of federal, state and business driven rules and regulations that companies and security engineers need to keep up with. In a rational and impassioned blog entry, Rational Survivability asks if regulators are keeping up with changes in the Cloud Computing environment. […]

Posted in Security | Tagged audit, business, cloud computing, computing, controls, Misc Technology, policies, Security | 1 Response

10 Reasons When you know it is time to fire your Client

10 Reasons When you know it is time to fire your Client

By Dan Morrill on January 11, 2010

Everyone in consulting at some point has reached the end of the rope with a client, either through nonpayment, not listening, or any number of reasons that someone can come up with. Not all businesses are built equally and even though they will hire a very high priced client, when they stop listening, or when […]

Posted in General | Tagged clients, consulting, contract, contracting, drama, firing, Misc Technology, money, performance issues, termination, work relationships | 1 Response

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