8 fighter jets added to growing security. Eight F-16s will patrol the skies over Boston during the Democratic National Convention, military officials said yesterday, as police and military personnel took positions in unprecedented security precautions in the city. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Month: July 2004
Needed – A Dramatic Redefinition of “Search”
Needed – A Dramatic Redefinition of “Search”. The enterprise search market has become a crowded and complex space dominated by a few big players where the goal is to find old documents and static web pages. The utter futility of returning 670,000 results to a person who really only cares about the first 10 has… Continue reading Needed – A Dramatic Redefinition of “Search”
IM Best Practices For Security Managers
IM Best Practices For Security Managers. In 2001, the CEO of eFront, a Web-site affiliation service, found that hundreds of his instant messaging (IM) conversations had been stolen and posted online. The logs included details and sensitive commentary on business partners—and that was just for starters. In light of that incident, and similar threats today,… Continue reading IM Best Practices For Security Managers
The problem with the 9/11 report is that it isn't going to change the lethargic inbred hierarchies at the CIA, DIA, DoD, FBI, etc. As long as these organizations go unchanged, we are going to lose this war. I agree with Anonymous; there isn't any cause for optimism when it comes to our government's effort. [John Robb's Weblog
The problem with the 9/11 report is that it isn't going to change the lethargic inbred hierarchies at the CIA, DIA, DoD, FBI, etc. As long as these organizations go unchanged, we are going to lose this war. I agree with Anonymous; there isn't any cause for optimism when it comes to our government's effort.… Continue reading The problem with the 9/11 report is that it isn't going to change the
lethargic inbred hierarchies at the CIA, DIA, DoD, FBI, etc. As long as
these organizations go unchanged, we are going to lose this war. I
agree with Anonymous; there isn't any cause for optimism when it comes
to our government's effort. [John Robb's Weblog
A failure of vision
A failure of vision. Gen John Keane, Army Vice Chief of Staff (the Army's #2) in testimony before the House Armed Services Committe on July 15th. “The intellectual capital to prepare ourselves properly for an insurgency was not there,” “There were very few people who actually envisioned, honestly, before the war, what we are dealing… Continue reading A failure of vision
NY Daily News
NY Daily News: No one to blame. The 9/11 Commission closed its probe yesterday with a final report that identified a breathtaking array of government blind spots – but did not blame a single person for the shortcomings. I picked this story because the headline brings up an important point. If this and the surprise… Continue reading NY Daily News
Personal servers – via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare
Personal servers – via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare. Man oh man I sure wish MT had WYSIWYG editing. I wanted to post this a coupel of days ago – but….. it took too long to….. Anyway – here's some cool shit Adam Rifkin is talking about personal servers – and what Rohit is thinking… Continue reading Personal servers – via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare
The IE team is blogging and hiring
The IE team is blogging and hiring. Shhh, don't tell anyone, but Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, told me that they are hiring. Interested in working on a next-generation browser product? Passionate about standards, security, tight code, a great interface, accessibility, usability, and all those other “ity's” like quality? Jobs… Continue reading The IE team is blogging and hiring
2 parties halted over picket threats
2 parties halted over picket threats. City convention organizers have canceled two of Mayor Thomas M. Menino's signature convention welcoming parties because delegations from Ohio and Michigan are refusing to cross threatened police picket lines at the events, even with a police union contract set to be announced today. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Bush shifts gear, speaks of vision for second term
Bush shifts gear, speaks of vision for second term. Just one week before his Democratic rival will receive his party's nomination, President Bush last night offered the first outlines of what his own presidency would look like if he wins a second term, citing plans for changes in education standards and the tax code and… Continue reading Bush shifts gear, speaks of vision for second term