Jon’s Network

I do alot of conference calls with vendors and customers.  Every vendor uses a different service, but most are WebEx, Citrix (gotomeeting or gotowebinar), Raindance or Readytalk.  I recently switched to a Mac (I love it by the way…I’ll post on that someday).  All of the above web demo services have worked great accept for [...]

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One concern some school district administrators have when considering Vericept is that they will end up with more sensitive exposure to the media and public since there is now a better record of network abuse.  This is assuming that the database would be public information.  I guess it depends on your State’s interpretion, but if [...]

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The rush for device encryption gathers steam and I ask myself: "Why didn’t this happen sooner?"  I guess it is a result of group-think.  Since no single decision maker was responsible for the loss of the data, there was no perceived risk, and nothing was done.  This is all quickly changing as companies realize that [...]

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The ends don’t justify the means- or do they? Why does that Canadian hacker get off clean when this guy had to plead guilty?  There is no difference the way I see it.  They both were distributing Trojans. The former masqueraded as photos in a newsgroup and the latter as movie downloads in chat rooms. [...]

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I posted earlier today about Nancy Willards analysis of the Julie Amero Tragedy.  Nancy sent me the digest below of the full report (pdf).

In her own words:

The tragic case of Julie Amero, a substitute teacher who was convicted of “impairing the morals of minor” because pornographic images were visible on a computer in her classroom [...]

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Nancy Willard, a lawyer in the education and computer law fields, has published an analysis (pdf download) today of the Julie Amero case after reviewing all available data, including the police reports.  She also discusses the map of the classroom.

Here is a tasty morsel:

Let’s be perfectly clear about this: The school district contacted the [...]

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This Times article details a new technique that criminals could use to steal your log-in information.  It only works if they have the password to your router.  Since most casual internet users don’t even know they have a router, their routers still have the default passwords such as "admin". (The article estimates that 50% are [...]

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Anne Marie Chaker of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article (subscription required) about schools trying to be proactive about the cyberbullying problem.  Schools are writing new policies prohibiting harrassment and bullying using electronic media,  but many are concerned that they don’t have a right to intervene in situations that occur off-campus.  Others are leaving [...]

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Steve Jobs was right when he said DRM doesn’t work and is bad for consumers.  I think most people realize that the increase of freedom would improve the market for online music.  Most can’t imagine that eliminating patents would also spark a flurry of innovation and advancement by enabling quicker adoption of new ideas and [...]

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I’m sure you have heard about Julie Amero, the poor substitute teacher that was convicted of harming some minors by intentionally showing them pornography.  You can read the Jan 6 report here.  First of all, even if she did do that, I don’t think a prison sentence is going to curb her interest in porn.  [...]

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