Top Security Papers for New Security Software Engineers. Recently on the SC-L mailing list a discussion on some of the topic good security papers has insued. As you know, on the right side of my blog I have some of my personal favorites. Those are papers that at the time of reading, actually “changed” my… Continue reading Top Security Papers for New Security Software Engineers
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Collaborative knowledge gardening
InfoWorld: Collaborative knowledge gardening. Jon Udell. To CTOs, though, I'd say that both are collaborative systems for building a shared database of items, developing a metadata vocabulary about the items, performing metadata-driven queries, and monitoring change in areas of interest. In the case of Flickr, an item is a photo; in the case of del.icio.us,… Continue reading Collaborative knowledge gardening
The layers of security I use to keep criminals at bay
The layers of security I use to keep criminals at bay. Tim Anderson: SP2 debate exposes deeper problems. ZDNet's David Berlind: SP2's new firewall: better than nothing, but not good enough. Security is an interesting issue. How much security is good enough? Let's get out of the computer world. Let's talk about heirloom jewelry. My… Continue reading The layers of security I use to keep criminals at bay
You're Athletes, Not Journalists
You're Athletes, Not Journalists. Olympians can do media interviews but they'd better not blog. The International Olympic Committee, interested in protecting lucrative broadcasting contracts, forbids any activity that might upset the networks. [Wired News]
Mass. job growth highest since ’00
Mass. job growth highest since ’00. Massachusetts bucked the national hiring slowdown in July as the state posted its biggest monthly job gains in nearly four years and manufacturing employment surged. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Well-designed products
Cooper Interaction Design: Well-designed products. A common affliction plaguing many of us interaction designers is the propensity to complain and kvetch about every piece of software on our computers, cell-phones and cars. And it's true–there is a lot of bad software out there. To offset this sometimes irritating tendency to critique and redesign everything we… Continue reading Well-designed products
Reuters
Reuters. Kennedy — one of the most recognizable figures in American politics — told a Senate committee hearing on Thursday he had been blocked several times from boarding commercial airline flights because his name was on a “no-fly” list intended to exclude potential terrorists. [John Robb's Weblog]
OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy
OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy. I love OneNote and have grown dependent on it. However, one of my biggest complaints has been the lack of a virtual printer. (See my previous article Three Missing Features in OneNote.) Unlike Windows Journal, GoBinder, or TabletPlanner, there's not been an easy way to get an external document into OneNote.… Continue reading OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy
Tips for IA job hunters
Tips for IA job hunters. Michael Angeles has a boatload of excellent advice for information architects looking for work. If you’re in the market for an IA job, particularly if you’re new in the field, go read it now. Caroline Jarrett’s recent take on how not to get a job in usability has similar themes… Continue reading Tips for IA job hunters
IA Heuristics
IA Heuristics. Lou Rosenfeld offers up his set of heuristics for information architecture. Much more useful for evaluating findability than Jakob and Rolf’s original usability heuristics that were developed in DOS days. [ia/ blogs]