Jeremiah turned me on to this article about the man at Microsoft whose job is to kill IE6. “Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible,” said Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group. Gavin said Microsoft will continue to work with companies to move … Continue reading Killing IE6
Ever wonder why you are offered two separate words in the reCaptcha box? They call it a “free anti-bot service that helps digitize books”. What they really mean to say is that if you type in two words, one of the words will help you and the other word will help them. The security implication … Continue reading 50% reCaptcha Failure
I often wonder about the changes as a result of mobile technology in so called rural and under-developed areas. The cost of infrastructure can be prohibitive compared to deployment of wireless technologies. My first introduction to this was when Brazil announced cell phones were being sold within 24 hours at a time when a phone … Continue reading Mobile Device Economics and Security
The best minds in cloud security are meeting today at the Cloud Security Alliance Private/Public Cloud Summit…no, not really. I just wanted to say that because it typifies the hype and marketing I often find in cloud computing model discussion. There are a lot of smart people here, though, and the presentations are interesting. We … Continue reading Cloud Security Alliance Conference