Susan Mauldin’s Complete Failure As Equifax’s Security Chief Rightly Strikes Sour Notes
The pundits are right: Susan Mauldin's music degrees didn't make her a bad chief security officer. Her failure to do even the obvious basics did.
Tag: ethics
TEA Time: New England GiveCamp 2012 Recap
Last weekend I was in Cambridge, Mass. for New England GiveCamp 2012, the third of annual meet-ups that match technical and design people with nonprofit organiz...
Review: Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson provides a good introductory course on the economics of the Information Age, but doesn't tell us what we don't already know.
News Of The World Wasn’t ‘Hacking’ Voicemail, It Was Blagging
Hacking is intentionally changing something to work other than as designed. Blagging is exploiting someone's ignorance or inattention.
New England GiveCamp 2011: What A Weekend!
New England GiveCamp 2011 was a great experience! Here's how the weekend went for my team.
The Lessons We Should All Relearn From HBGary
HB Gary made a number of simple mistakes that led to a major hack. Those mistakes are all too common, in every organization.
Killing Tynt’s “Read More” Clipboard Copy Hijacker With The Adblock Plus Plug-In For Firefox
Update, 20 July 2011: I received an e-mail that notes the correct link to Tynt’s opt-out button is now http://www.tynt.com/tynt-users-opt-out. Its author ...
The Answers I Wish Facebook Had Given To User Questions
The New York Times’ Bits blog has a post today in which chief Facebook lobbyist Elliot Schrage answers reader questions. For a lawyer — especially a...
The Visual Studio Launch 2010 Boston Event, Reconsidered
Now that I’m a day or so removed from the Visual Studio “Launch 2010” event in Boston, have plenty of sleep under my belt, and the benefit of ...
On Facebook’s New Features, Privacy And The Near Future Of The Web
Quite a bit has been made recently of the changes to Facebook’s default settings, an extensive expansion of how Facebook shares data with other Web sites,...