Martin and I are preparing for Thanksgiving, just like everyone else in America right now. I don’t know about you, but that primarily means I have five days of work to accomplish in three days of the week. So we didn’t organize a guest this week- instead we sat down together (1000 miles apart) and talked about some of the stories that caught our attention over the last couple of weeks. It’s a good show, and we’re out of here until after Turkey Day.
Last week I talked a bit on the decision by Microsoft to kill OneCare and release a new, free antivirus package later in 2009. Overall, I stated that I believe this will be good for consumers:
When I was with IPLocks in the 2004 time frame, we were exploring the possibility of selling our monitoring and assessment suite into the government. Friends and contacts made introductions, and we began investigating if there was a need for the solution, and if so, how we would approach tackling that type of relationship. While we knew dealing with the government would be tough, we felt that any organization that is sitting on piles of personally identifiable information and literally hundreds…
Catching up from last week I saw this article in Techworld (from NetworkWorld) about an IETF meeting to discuss the impact of Dan Kaminsky’s DNS exploit and potential strategies for hardening DNS.
I installed Parallels 4.0 on the iMac last week, upgraded my licenses and converted my bootable images to the new format. It took a while to do as the conversion process takes a long time. While the installation was trivial, I had 4 different bootable images to convert, which took a good 3 hours to migrate even though they were only a couple of gigabytes a piece and only have a handful of applications installed. But I had no problems and everything worked fine. There are a couple subtle changes…
Since I get asked this question a lot:
Call yourself an analyst.
Convince someone to call you an analyst.
Business cards don’t hurt.
After this week, Rich and I are “Home for the Holidays”, with the last of the year’s travel behind us.
Last week the SBN died as Google decided to drop support for Feedburner groups during their transition of Feedburner to Google’s platform.
I swore that I was not going to cover data ‘breach’ events unless there was something that was really interesting or unique about it. There are too many and the general public has grown desensitized as the number of records and the overall number of breaches is, well, mind numbing. But this caught my eye as I think I may have taken photos of this house when it went back to the bank: