Why Whack-a-Mole won't work against the likes of Wikileaks

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	Why Whack-a-Mole won't work against the likes of Wikileaks Security expert Bruce Schneier weighs in with five points about Wikileaks and the fourth rests upon the fact that any secret is only as secure as the least trusted person who knows it. This has little to do with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is just a website. The real story is that "least trusted person" who decided to violate his security clearance and make these cables public. Read More WEBCAST: CA Business Service Assurance In an attempt to keep its proverbial head above water, IT has traditionally worked in a break-fix mode within operational silos. View Now In this Issue Is There A Sexual Harassment Problem In The Open Source Community? Stop Freaking Out About Terrorism. Did TSA miss that memo? Open Source Not For Financial Institutions? Bah Humbug Chrome OS: 10 things you can (and can't) do with the Google PC Can will.i.am make cloud computing cool? WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Defragmentation in Virtualized Environments Performance corrupting file fragmentation is severely compounded on virtual platforms and threatens to undo most of its efficiency benefits. Coordinating defrag resources between VMs was an insurmountable barrier until recent innovations eliminated conflicts. Learn More Is There A Sexual Harassment Problem In The Open Source Community? For a long time I have spoken out against sexism in the IT industry. While we bemoan the scarcity of woman in IT, we still manage in many cases to act like caveman when it comes treating them as equals and peers in technology. For me one of the saddest things are booth babes at trade shows. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint A Product's Value Increases with Mobility We're in the middle of a mobility revolution, and if you don't have a mobile strategy yet you need to get on board! Learn More Now Stop Freaking Out About Terrorism. Did TSA miss that memo? Stop freaking out about terrorism was the message from the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), but TSA must not have gotten the memo. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM 3 Ways to Optimize Your Infrastructure To be competitive today, businesses need to find new ways to cut costs without cutting projects or jobs. As data is the backbone of nearly every business, optimizing your IT infrastructure can soon reduce your administration, maintenance, storage and training costs. Read Now Open Source Not For Financial Institutions? Bah Humbug I don't know how many of you have been following the Sergey Aleynikov-Goldman Sachs theft case. Aleynikov was arrested and charged with stealing the source code to Goldman Sachs' trading program. The prosecution claims he was going to use the code for his new employer. At trial it came out that most of the code Aleynikov stole was in fact open source code. Oops, there it is! Read More Chrome OS: 10 things you can (and can't) do with the Google PC After testing out one of the devices, I've come up with a list of ten things you can (and cannot) do with a Chrome OS computer. Read More Can will.i.am make cloud computing cool? Tech CEOs often incorporate pop or rock music into their keynotes and so it was with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, that he strode onstage at San Francisco's Moscone Center Tuesday at the Dreamforce 2010 conference to the Black Eyed Peas' "Own It" from their new CD. Read More
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