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Teblog: Vendor Relationship Management UK-style Tebbo gets his first taste of VRM. (tags: vrm) So this VRM thing Review of the last VRM meeting from an attendee (tags: vrm) Macworld | Mac Gems | USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter redux At last month’s Macworld Expo, Newer Technology announced a new, updated version of the Drive…

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Via a circuitous route I came across “Ten Mistakes that CIOs consistently make that weaken enterprise security” – and I have to say that having read it, albeit bitter and hard, most of it applies much more broadly than just the field of security. Quoted from The Enterprise Architecture Blog: 1: Use process as a…

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My emphasis: NPR: Cunningham Furious Over McCain Apology Hell hath no furry like a conservative talk show host scorned Reading too much SomethingPositive, I can’t get the mental images out of my head… O’Reilly. <ick>.

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Entire developer tools team placed on super-duper lockdown Look, I’ve gotta admit, I’m pretty disappointed with the developer tools engineers. These guys have really let me down. We were supposed to have the iPhone SDK out by February and let’s be honest — it ain’t gonna happen. They’re all…

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My ol’ buddy and former colleague Steve Lodin mailed me to chide that I hadn’t yet passed comment on the Chip’n’Pin scandal that my-favourite-anarchist-in-a-dickie-bow-tie Professor Ross Anderson has splatted all over the news. The thing is: I feel my opinions are kinda redundant in this matter. The wise person will read Ross’s team’s blog, watch…

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Regards my recent trip to Germany (with resultant podcast) to present about CMT and Security, I lucked out when I did the actual presentation: Literally as I stood to present, in the hope of getting an audio recording I plunked my dinky, go-everywhere Canon IXUS 900 on the table and left it recording video at…

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Via Geoff’s blog I find this fascinating, chiefly wondering what the IRS will do if it becomes popular. Through friends and my trips through Europe I’ve learned a more flexible approach to payment-in-local-currency (USD in Ethiopia, GBP and EUR in non-eurozone Denmark) – but somehow the notion of that flexibility being available in the home…

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Gothamist: Baking Substitutions for when you run out of baking powder… (tags: cooking baking food) Internet Alert Registry The Internet Alert Registry (IAR) provides the network operator community with up to date BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing security information. The IAR uses the methods described in PGBGP to identify advertised routes that are potentially bogus.…

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Dead Squirrel on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Artful (tags: funny photography humor squirrel)

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So I was in Fulda a few days ago – presenting on Security and CMT-based systems – and Constantine dragged me aside to participate in the SYSTEMHELDEN.COM podcast for this month: HELDENFunk Folge 11 vom 22. Februar 2008 Heute geht es um das GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch und um das große Thema Security, einmal im Zusammenhang mit…

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iPhone LoJack – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Use your iPhone to broadcast your location to Twitter: live “Where am I” feeds, theft tracking… (tags: Security twitter iphone hacking) Banksy Art Exhibition – Banksy at Andipa Gallery London, London Banksy Exhibition To do? (tags: art banksy)

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Sigh. Here we go again… BBC NEWS | Technology | ISPs could face piracy sanctions Internet service providers must take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads or face legal sanctions, the government has said. The proposal is aimed at tackling the estimated 6m UK broadband users who download files illegally every year. The culture secretary…

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