I hope that my compulsive need to identify and correct vulnerabilities is helpful.

It’s interesting to me that a company that makes hardware to test network and server performance and security is asking questions about data breach. I see the connection – an unsafe firewall isn’t really complying with the PCI DSS and it isn’t really protecting client data. But to go from testing to finance is too big a jump.

The year was 1996. College kids were online—using graphics-free VAX terminals for the most part—but their parents were not. Web pages loaded at rate you wouldn’t accept from your cell phone today. Not exactly the perfect scenario for a streaming video of a dancing baby to take off…

CNN, if I wanted my friends to know what I was reading at your site, I would tell them. If I wanted my Facebook friends to know what I was reading at your site, I would post a link. Or I would click the “Share on Facebook” link. It really takes very little effort to let people know what you’re up to, these days. I bet you’ve even reported about this, haven’t you?

Do cut rates mean cut integrity? Does journalistic integrity still exist?

All you are to Google is a sucker who will give away your privacy so they can make money serving targeted ads.

Doesn’t everyone love the Apple image?  Did you know your iPod was built by a child in a forced labor camp?  Still love the image?  I found this article today Apple admits using child labour – Telegraph and I’ve got to say that I find it sickening.
This isn’t the evil Google, Microsoft, or Intel.  This [...]

Social media customer relations rocks on.

I’ve been a fan of Windows since version 3.1. After playing with LOGO and Mac systems as a grade-schooler and then trying to work in BASIC (sans hard drive, no less), I met my first Windows 3.1 machine late in high school and suddenly everything made sense. Here were screens that showed me my [...]

The value of the written word has plummeted now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry can get page views by using keywords.