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Monday, March 24, 2003 |
News.Com: "Instant messaging company Jabber on Monday said it secured a $7.2 million investment from Intel Capital." [Scripting News]
6:51:41 PM 
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Gen. Wesley Clark, unplugged. The war hero, CNN analyst and potential Democratic presidential candidate speaks frankly to Salon about the tragic turn in Iraq and how Bush bungled the case for war. [Salon.com]
6:49:05 PM
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More Doc Searls Ondentity. Mitch responds to my Mydentity piece in Linux Journal. Most of what we did last night in the bar was talk about identity. Very hot and interesting talk. Odd to find myself in a conversation about a subject where the people and companies implementing the technologies are talking way the hell over my head. I just keep advocating The Customer, and the whole demand side, of the identity-enabled marketplace. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
(See also this earlier piece of the conversation and my terse remarks there.)
10:38:08 AM
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Beware the Ides of March, by Brian Hatch, Hacking Linux Exposed.
Summary: Everyone needs a good reminder about when it's time to change their passwords. For me, it's March 15th.
Good review of what makes for "good" passwords today.
10:34:01 AM
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Microsoft asks colleges to teach hacking, by Joris Evers, IDG News Service.
As part of an 11 week module that will start in January next year, third-year undergraduates at the University of Leeds will be asked to hack into software and fix any security bugs they find, Nick Efford, senior teaching fellow at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, said.
We are going to get our students to think about software in a
different way and look at software with a different perspective. We
will give them examples of software and will ask them to perform a
security audit of it and identify things that are insecure and then
ask them to fix the problems, Efford said.
Students will be confronted with security vulnerabilities such as
buffer overruns and taught how to prevent those when writing software. That focus on security in software engineering and the hands-on experience makes the course different from most existing security classes, which typically focus on network security and cryptography, according to Efford.
Microsoft is partly funding Efford's fellowship and is helping with
the curriculum's content. The Redmond, Washington , software maker is
in talks with other universities on similar programs, Stuart Okin,
chief security officer for Microsoft in the U.K. said.
(thanks, ISN!)
10:28:21 AM
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Adam
pow pics not kewl?. I'm a bit taken a back by comments received on my post about european tv coverage, where we *have* seen the images of US pow's. Their faces are displayed on the front page of all newspapers here today.
How long does the US media plan on *not* showing american and/or coalition casualties? The geneva convention states:
"[...] prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity."
Technically I suppose you can't show any pictures of any pow's anywhere. Since it would satisfy the curisoity of any viewer.
6:43:33 AM
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AARP's New Hangout: KaZaA, Web's Mosh Pit. The computer literacy gap between children and their grandparents may be narrowing. In fact, older people now spend so much time online that the AARP, the association for middle-age and older adults, has begun advertising on KaZaA Media Desktop, software used by millions of teenagers and young adults to swap songs online. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Technology]
6:40:58 AM
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