From the Department of Duh, really?
Passwords remain weakest link in Web security | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com.
Frustrating that with all the focus on SSO without security (I’m talking to you OpenID folks) and all the security technologies available to grant both security and SSO (or Reduced Sign-On for you “SSO is impossible” folks) this [...]

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AT&T to allow expanded Internet calling services on Apples iPhone – SiliconValley.com.
Still hate how much the government is involved in all this as the market would have driven the right answer anyway.  Glad to see AT&T come to their senses sooner than later, probably driven more by their desire to retain a solid relationship with [...]

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Bird deaths present problem at wind farms – USATODAY.com.
Still not sure why people convinced that evolution is all wise, care if those selected as unfit are so selected through predation, starvation, fire, flood, meteor strike or wind turbine.  That would of course require a belief system that was internally consistent and that would of course [...]

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Researchers Bypass Secure Web Connections
EV SSL certificates are supposed to help people feel more secure online. But at Black Hat next week, two researchers plan to disclose a way around SSL protection.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501653&cid=nl_tw_security
Looks like EV SSL is proving no more secure as a presentation / pretty pictures scenario pushing authentication off on user’s powers of observation.

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Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 9th through July 10th:

New Best Buy PS3 Bundle Brings MGS4, Killzone 2 – I need to make sure I don't accidentally enter a Best Buy this weekend as this could cause me to weaken and pick one up. This is effectively a [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 9th:

Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success – By The Numbers (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider) – Very interesting. Seems that MarkZ understands a seriously powerful opportunity in owning identity. Lots of challenges of course, but this is something PayPal had [...]

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Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 8th through July 9th:

Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better (David Pogue/New York Times) – hmm… guess I'm not the only one with this opinion.
Google To Announce Major Identity Initiative for 1 Million+ Companies and Schools – The reality is that for [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 6th:

Hell of a Way to Get Out of Your AT&T Contract, Varney… – yeah, why let the free market decide? Marxism, nationalist socialist, whatever you want to try and tie it to, it all comes out to authoritarian on a scale [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 6th:

Bullied by Media, Palin Resigns – No matter what she does, I'll continue to follow her career. I hope she can be brought to national prominence against all the odds just as the much mocked "former actor" Ronaldous Magnus Reagan did.
Interesting [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 30th:

Firefox 3.5 Arrives Today, But Are You Dazzled? – Sorry, no love here for FF. Chrome is definitely fast, clean and nice. IE works everywhere just fine and is fast enough. FireFox is slow as molasses to fire up, [...]

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