How often do you need to crack something, really?  Once is all you need.
Information Week has this story on Blu-Ray Copy Protection Breached and the response from the BD+ encryption provider has me scratching my head.
“BD+ is a security response system designed to react to security attacks, not prevent them entirely. As part of this [...]

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This is the first of what will likely become a series and so categorized as a Rant:
OK, so this is the last example of the day and nothing against Rafe, his post is just the last straw over the last couple days, where I’ve heard that how fast a browser opens really, really matters to [...]

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A friend asked me about IronKey today and my first recollection was that I stopped by their booth last year at RSA. So I initially responded that far as I could remember, it was just another secure USB storage play. But since he was asking, I figured I would revisit it, especially when [...]

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We are well into the era of Web 2.0 with social networking all the rage.  At work, we are using an increasing number of web applications and services.  Consequently, we are spreading around an incredible amount of sensitive information about our families, employers, associates and ourselves.  Amazingly, we have made no real gains in creating [...]

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As I’ve listed in previous posts I’m the proud and mostly happy owner of a Treo 700w with Verizon.  I, like most other gear-heads out there, really can’t help but salivate over the iPhone.  Face it, it’s beautiful and has a fair amount of cool-factor.  But I don’t own one and really have no intention [...]

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I discussed this over on EYEdentityOnline.com:
G-Archiver Brings Web 2.0 Risks Into Focus
Originally published March 15, 2008

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As I mentioned several posts previous, I’ve moved a large bulk of my online life to Google.  One of the reasons I did this was because of Google Apps.  I set up a domain for my family in Google Apps as we are always asking for each others calendar information and various shared contact information.  [...]

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Just like the last post, let’s start with some background.  I’m between full-time gigs at the moment as I am blessed to be in the position to resign from my former gig and take some partial downtime while examining where, what to do next.  I state partial downtime as I am still doing some consulting [...]

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To explain my thought and decision taking processes, it is probably helpful to understand my digital life environment.  Here is a list of our family’s digital life gear we own and use on a regular basis.  Yes, it is overkill and a tad bit embarrassing to let the world in on the fact that my [...]

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So, recently cut loose from a corporate Outlook / Exchange world, I struck out through the wastelands to find a new home base from which to operate.  It needs to work seamlessly from:

My main PC
My current and any near term mobile phone / PDA (currently a Treo 7oow) 
My secondary PC which is attached to my [...]

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