AT&T Plans CNN-style Security Channel

An anonymous reader writes "Infoworld has a story about AT&T's upcoming effort to create a CNN of network security. From the article: "Security experts at AT&T are about to take a page from CNN's playbook. Within the next year they will begin delivering a video streaming service that will carry Internet security news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to the executive in charge of AT&T Labs.""

Comments

How interesting could this be?

[qbushido]

I mean even to people who LIKE technology AND work in networking, how much news relevant to networking could there possibly be in one day? I understand the desire for DoS warnings to be sent and investigated, or even reporting on trade shows...but 24/7?

Re:How interesting could this be?

[convolvatron]

forget funding, how could they possibly come up with that much content on internet security. 'in other late breaking news, the internet still lacks a decent pki, and script kiddies run rampant'

Re:Watergate would have been blogged

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

BS.

Dan Rather is one thing, Bush is another. If a blog had discredited Bush to that extent, it would either a: be discredited as 'just a blog' or b: be silenced / discredited rather quickly. It took YEARS for the memo from Britain to get around.

The printing press was working in a vacuum. It made social change because it was completely new when it came to distribuation of information. While it COULD be argued that blogs are the same thing, the main people arguing it would be bloggers. Just because the datalink upstream from individuals is wider doesn't mean the datalink downstream to individuals will get any more varied anytime soon.

I'm sorry, but that's the way it's probably going to be for a while. I'd like to believe in this viewpoint, but I don't.

Re:Early model

[ChiefPilot]

That's OK. Experimenting on black prisoners with STDs didn't come to light before conglomerates owned the media anyway.