In the context of all the incendiary harangues and self-righteous bloviation about the Mohammed cartoons, Flemming Rose, the editor at the Jyllands-Posten who made the decision to publish them, has written a thoughtful piece on his actions, including this snippet:
I acknowledge that some people have been offended by the publication of the cartoons, and Jyllands-Posten [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Posten Editor Explains the Cartoons
Posted in Press freedom on February 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Trust, Fraud, and Email, part 1
Posted in Internet on February 17, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I have a deep suspicion that we're seeing phishing attacks and spam grossly undercutting the utility of email as a communication medium, simply because you can't trust anything you get via email these days. Something's gotta change, but what? Problem is, most of the proposed fixes are technological, whereas many of the problems [...]
Defending the Internet, part 2
Posted in Internet on February 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This from the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.
Bloggers?
Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and [...]
Will we — Can we — protect the Internet?
Posted in Internet on February 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Even before the shooting starts, and almost always after it does, the network attackers crank up. In Africa, rival factions in the various civil wars blast at each other via website, and occasionally try to mail-bomb or othewise take down the opposing sites. The Indians and the Pakistanis have a constant low-level battle [...]
Progress Stomps On
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The once-dominant telegram, has, after 150 years, fallen to the onslaught of e-mail, instant messaging, and cellular text messaging. Western Union has announced as of January 27th 2006, that it will no longer accept telegraphic messages.
In my grandfather’s day, and he was once a telegraph boy on the railroad, you went into a telegraph [...]
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