I’ve previously posted on the expensive and wretched performance of private security contractors currently engaged by the US government in Afghanistan. I’d like for a moment to take a look at what these contractors — in this case, essentially mercenaries — are up to in Iraq and what that means to us. I’d [...]
Archive for January, 2007
American Mercenaries and the Surge
Posted in Terrorism on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Guidelines for Secure Passwords
Posted in Internet, Privacy, technology on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To those who complain that I’m always pointing out problems and not providing solutions, I present for your edification some material to help you choose better passwords. This stuff follows my own practice, so make your own judgements about it and proceed. If it’s good enough for me, its good enough for you [...]
Muslim Blogging — A Small Hope
Posted in Internet, Islam on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Columbia Journalism Review, January 2007 issue, contains a thoughtful and interesting piece discussing blogging in the Arab world. Now of course I’m including it here because it supports one of my beliefs: that Muslim societies actually have more diversity of opinion than the West commonly believes, and most of these diverse viewpoints are [...]
Botnets, Spam, and the Average User
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a little amplification on the issue of the overwhelming deluge of spam that I posted on earlier. If you have any doubt at all about the dimension of the problem, read on.
The problem is not that somebody’s generating spam, but that they’ve installed an intrusive little program on a few thousand personal computers [...]
Immigration and Innovation in Technology
Posted in Internet, immigration on January 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t know if I’m happy or sad about the following, from an AP article:
Foreign-born entrepreneurs were behind one in four U.S. technology startups over the past decade, according to a study to be published Thursday. A team of researchers at Duke University estimated that 25 percent of technology and engineering companies started from 1995 [...]
The New Year in Tech: Opportunities
Posted in Environment, Internet on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So many people blog around new years’ about the past year, but I’m going to post about the future. This has it’s downsides, of course; you run the risk of being wrong on something. But I’ll take that risk just to keep things focused on things we still have the opportunity to change. [...]
The New Year in Tech: Challenges
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Terrorism on January 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is the not-so-fun part of the tech explosion into popular life, the sudden washboard-road that tells us that lots of people aren’t really ready for all this stuff. So here are the challenges, or in some cases, actual threats, and unfortunately most of them are self-inflicted.
The tsunami of spam is threatening to make [...]
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