Archive for December, 2007:
UK Government Data Loss
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There are not many silver linings on the cloud sitting over Information Security experts who work for the UK Government this Christmas. Following the loss of personal information on welfare recipients by HMRC (twice), learner driver information by the DVLA, personal information on policemen binned in an unencrypted and intact form by Devon police, and [...]
The Network Is The Computer. Again.
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Ever since John Gage of Sun first offered the phrase “The Network Is The Computer” to the world, people have been using it as inspiration. Sun use it to explain that they mean Social Networking without actually using the phrase (they prefer the old fashioned “community”).
I think web 2.0 developers are offering a new [...]
Voice peering
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I come from an IP engineering background, and now work in a telecoms role with Localphone.com. Huge amounts of crossover exist between the two disciplines, especially now that inter-company telecommunications interconnections are now regularly made over IP, but much of what someone will learn about peering in the voice world will not be mellifluous [...]
