Meltdown and Spectre may retard public cloud adoption
2017 felt like the year that the security blanket was yanked from all of the technology world. There were so many deep dark revelations that meant that there is no safe harbor; that unless you spend ALL your time on security, you and your company are just basically waiting for a determined hacker to put […]
Time for a Consumer Router Internet Bill of Rights
There is an undervalued and critical piece of equipment in almost any home in any advanced country – an internet router. This thing is big business because every home and business needs one (although the ones for business are a slightly different and better) to get online… AND most people are now online in most […]
Evolving Internet standards beyond ‘rough consensus and working code’
One of the more useful things about science fiction (and I am enamored by science fiction) is not just the science or the fiction but some of the more thoughtful plot points used to drive the larger narrative. One such remarkable one is the “three laws of robotics” construct invented by the science fiction maestro, […]
Rethinking Open Source security
By now you’ve been sufficiently terrorized by the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL; a rotten bounds checking error in the C code for that security library that secured about 40% of the Internet. If you have not checked your servers, you should do so now here. I’m rocking mostly IIS in my private cloud so I’m […]