Jon’s Network

In case you haven’t heard, you can run Apple’s Safari browser on Windows. Why would you want to? Well, according to Apple, it is faster among other things. I would have to agree. This is the reason I use Safari as my primary browser, although I still use Firefox daily for [...]

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I recently met Robert Keller, a technologist for a school district in Washington state. It turns out that he offers quite a good resource for organizations looking to implement VoIP, especially OS systems based on Asterisk like Trixbox. He has a blog here and a Gabcast channel here.

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From Wired:

A federal appeals court on Monday issued a landmark decision (.pdf) that holds that e-mail has similar constitutional privacy protections as telephone communications, meaning that federal investigators who search and seize emails without obtaining probable cause warrants will now have to do so.

Most people already have had an expectation of privacy form the beginning [...]

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Jeff Atwood describes how his PC was overwhelmed by spyware and adware after visiting two reputable gaming sites to download some patches. He had recently reinstalled XP and decided to download the game updates without patching the browser and OS. Just two quick sites would be OK right? Well, one of them [...]

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UPDATE: More on the Patchlink name change here

Patchlink has announced that they will acquire SecureWave, which adds endpoint security to their recent acquisition of the vulnerability scanner STAT Guardian (now Patchlink Scan), and their existing prowess at automated patch management. Last Fall, I told Patchlink that Bit9 would be a good buy for them, [...]

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Apple makes features more usable. Simple idea, but the results are magical.

I had a conversation with some sales reps at the Helio kiosk Friday night.

I asked them which phone competes with the iPhone. This question put them on the defensive, and they proceeded to question and antagonize me about the iPhone instead of selling [...]

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Ya, I’m gonna buy one.

iPhone TV spots

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How do we protect companies from malware that no one has ever seen before?

In this podcast we touch briefly on the well-known malware problem and how Webwasher tackles it at the gateway with their Anti-Malware Module. Using a combination of signatures, heuristics and behavior analysis (proactive detection in marketing lingo), they can stop more [...]

 

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