• Yahoo! News reports that Sony is trying to position their next generation Playstation as the home digital hub. I personally have a lot of high expectations for my future home digital hub – voice mail, security system, products in the fridge tracking, environmental controls, etc. I am not sure I want all that controlled by a device my kids can turn on and off. 🙂

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  • Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram is another newsletter with high signal but low noise ratio.

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  • Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram is another newsletter with high signal but low noise ratio.

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  • I do believe that you can deploy wireless networks in a secure way (it isn’t plug-n-play), but it requires some key commitments not only from management but also security professionals, and information technology (IT) specialists: #1.) requires good engineering, #2.) solid best practices, #3.) diligent dedicated & active resources, and #4.) comprehensive plans, policies, & procedures. If you don’t do these, then you’ll probably end up like the recent news with regards to a wireless deployment at the HQs for the Dept. of Homeland Security.

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  • I do believe that you can deploy wireless networks in a secure way (it isn’t plug-n-play), but it requires some key commitments not only from management but also security professionals, and information technology (IT) specialists: #1.) requires good engineering, #2.) solid best practices, #3.) diligent dedicated & active resources, and #4.) comprehensive plans, policies, & procedures. If you don’t do these, then you’ll probably end up like the recent news with regards to a wireless deployment at the HQs for the Dept. of Homeland Security.

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  • Pocket Thinker – an add-on to Outlook – enables outlining and linking between Outlook data items within Notes. If you are a “follower” of David Allen, this could be a tool for tracking next actions in a logical and efficient way. I have loaded it up for a 30-day evaluation.

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  • Pocket Thinker – an add-on to Outlook – enables outlining and linking between Outlook data items within Notes. If you are a “follower” of David Allen, this could be a tool for tracking next actions in a logical and efficient way. I have loaded it up for a 30-day evaluation.

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  • As a Cold War history buff, this new post by the National Security Archive is a very interesting read.

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  • As a Cold War history buff, this new post by the National Security Archive is a very interesting read.

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  • Silanis, a market leader in automating the Business Approval Process, was recently awarded US Patent 6,751,632 for its “Method of Creating Authenticated Verifiable Reproductions of Electronic Documents”.

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