Jon’s Network

Robert Alan Soloway was arrested Wednesday charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. According to Microsoft, he is one of the worlds most prolific spammers. Federal authorities actually said that we could notice a decrease in spam according to Yahoo News, but I find that [...]

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For Jon’s Network Podcast Number 3, I spoke with Chris Nickerson, Director of Security Services for Alternative Technology, an Arrow Company. He knows the security industry well having held high level positions at Shook, Hardy and Bacon, Sprint and KPMG. He discusses the balance between check-box compliance and intelligent risk mitigation as well as [...]

 

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If the craplets weren’t enough to keep you from buying computers from Dell, Sony, HP, et al., this spyware-like behavior by Dell and Google might convince you. The average user doesn’t even notice this though, so who cares. Vendors will keep doing this because it works.

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In case MSNBC et al. keep censoring Ron Paul, there is some good stuff here: http://blog.mises.org/archives/006638.asp

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Daniel Miessler wrote an inspiring primer on Ron Paul, Republican candidate for president. It’s an excellent entry point into the topic of Austrian economics and libertarian thought.

I hope Ron Paul wins. If he doesn’t, at least his campaign will expose more people to libertarian ideas. Libertarian ideas embody a principled world view [...]

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p> Thomas Claburn wrote about the Digg rebellion that snubbed copyright law by refusing to censor posts that publicize the processing key to unlock the DRM on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. The article is infused with quotes by Gregory Rutchik, which are great, but one of them perpetuates a false idea and I wanted [...]

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Jeremiah Grossman, of WhiteHat Security, offers a nice little life hack to alert you if your webmail is ever accessed, (or rather, if your alarm email is ever opened). It’s a nifty trick. To make it work though, you have to monitor your web server access logs to see if your alarm [...]

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p>Mike Masnick of Techdirt summarized his series of posts that everyone in business needs to read and understand. Those who apply his lucid explanation will thrive and those who don’t will eventually fall to the wayside.

Redefine the market based on the benefits [...]

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