In the fall out of Prism some things have really changed
In the fall out of the NSA Government spying row a number of things have become readily apparent from both the business security viewpoint and the personal security viewpoint. From the Business Viewpoint we have landed firmly in the Catch 22 world, on one side we have government regulations that tell companies what they must […]
We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer
We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer Yesterday the web site Medium posted that they got a surprise visit from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to talk about some Google searches they were doing about pressure cookers, back packs, and other interesting things to search for. […]
A prism bends light. #PRISM reporting bends truth
I wasn’t going to talk about the current fuss around PRISM, but the speed with which conjecture, rumour and some (good) newspaper investigative work has turned into ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ online makes this worth addressing. The conjecture may be correct. The NSA, the FBI, TLA and ETLA might be plugged right into the data centres of the […]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0’s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and […]
