Through Ian Fletcher of Burton: Peter Fleischer of Google is now facing criminal charges for failing to prevent the publication of a defamatory video on Google’s video site – taking it down after 24 hours was not sufficient. While this…
Jeff thinks that my term describing the privacy situation in Europe is a little harsh. I cannot blame him, since the Europeans, and especially Germany has been working hard on presenting themselves as the global guardians of privacy. And, true…
Most often people will believe bad news much easier than good news, displaying a general sense of pessimism that is part of the human soul. But sometimes it is really hard to believe what kind of madness politicians come up…
The DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Privacy Office of DHS has sent a letter to the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, making some recommendations for the adjustment of the way the department deals with…
It took a long time, but it seems that the time for an older idea of mine has come: Jeff Hodges is reporting on a report he prepared for the MIT Kerberos group to explore the use of SAML tokens…
We are truly living in interesting times, and while I sometimes prefer to be boring, I think that the increasing interest in authorization is definitively a good sign. Recent discussions on the OAuth Charter for the IETF WG, and Martin…
Oh well, I finally sat down and took the time to convert my aging main web site into something more dynamic. Since my – overall – quite reliable hoster gives me free PHP5 and MySQL databases, I took a closer…
Times are changing, and people have to change with it. Doh – another pearl of obvious wisdom, but there is an interesting application to the work life: while regular employment might change rather abruptly, business and community relationships usually do…
Wow – what a week this was… I have been through quite some ups and downs, and that is not even mentioning the fact that the U.S. got a new administration. Bad news first: not only did I have a…
There has already been quite some discussion on how to get Windows 7 to run under VirtualBox (bottom line: it works – just install it). Here is a litte add-on to this discussion: Running Windows 7 Beta 1 under VirtualBox…