Security

News.com with a good article on some of the privacy implications of using Google or any of the other search engines.

It's all good and great until somebody steals one million full personal profiles...

Apple is moving to Intel chips for its new machines, will it also start using the Trusted Computing architecture? (From boingboing)

The HIPAA laws and those privacy informational notices then you get each time you go to the doctor were put in place to protect the privacy of your medical records. Even President Bush decided it was a good idea when he first came into office. Now his administration, through the Department of Justice seems to have rolled over for the Medical industry and taken the teeth out of the legislation by removing important criminal penalties.

You can spend all you want on fancy technologies to secure data (or buildings, or airports, etc.), but if a person can still just walk in or make a phone call and convince the right person that they belong there, they can just walk out with your data. Or do what ever else they like, and the technology means little.

From USA today:
Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes: Simply connecting to the Internet - and doing nothing else - exposes your PC to non-stop, automated break-in attempts by intruders looking to take control of your machine surreptitiously.

There is always the Macintosh...

There is a new book out on spam: Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements

An eWeek article talks about all the security problems in Internet Explorer, and how the Computer Emergency Response Team recommends using an alternative browser.

If you are at all interested in security topics, especially where national security and electronic security issues intersect, than I highly recommend the once-monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter written by Bruce Schneier, the CTO of Counter Pane Internet Security.