Network & Infrastructure Blogs

Yearly Archives: 2007, 2008

And the next administration will be just as secure as this one...

7 hours ago

There is one constant on which we can always rely--the people involved in running the U.S. governement are clueless about information security.
Stallman and I agreee - relying on the cloud is stupid

Oct 5, 2008

I've been on leave and only just catching up on a few things. To many of you this is old I know. This doesn't happen often, but I found something which Stallman advocates which I agree with. In an interview, when …
EA Deliverable: Architecture Principles

Oct 4, 2008

ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES Section 3.1 of the Architecture Strategy Report. This section contains the following subsections: 3.1.1 Overview of Architecture Principles 3.1.2 Portability and Scalability 3.1.3 …
Credible Searching

Sep 30, 2008

Hakia, a semantic search engine, has announced a call to librarians and information professionals. From the press release:
robots.txt is NOT a security control

Sep 30, 2008

Sitting in a meeting the other day, my mind hoisted a little red flag when I heard someone say the robot.txt file was a good security control. Not only is it not a security control, it also doesnt add much value …