Copyright © What The Hell? Security There are 3 kinds of security in business: Good security, acceptable security and bad security. Good security is the kind that works for the business and for the people who work in it. It aligns with universally known objectives, and is communicated in a way that motivates people to [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell Security Call me a heathen. I recently bought my first iPhone. I’ve owned about 15 too many Dangleberries. After accidentally dropping the last one and watching it land 75 horizontal feet from where I was standing at the time, I gave an HTC Aria running Android a try. One of [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell? Security [For context see "The FTC's Bitter-Tweet Victory over Twitter"] The Federal Trade Commission today issued a clarifying statement regarding its recently announced ruling that Twitter had not lived up to its promise of years past to protect consumers’ personal information. “The FTC wishes to reiterate our ruling that Twitter [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell? Security Few security happenings leave me speechless. The FTC’s insanely aggressive settlement over Twitter’s 2009 privacy gaffes practically yanked my tongue clear out of my mouth. First off, let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute. This is Twitter we’re talking about. Twitter isn’t a bank. It isn’t a medical institution. [...]
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Copyright © What The Hell? Security Hey Google, what the hell? Not that we’re keeping score or anything (see graph), but your Online Security Blog‘s quietude relative to Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Security and Privacy Blog is begging for a fan riot. According to my screen-scraping calculus, for the 18 months of January 2009 through June [...]
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