For the past 28 years I've been an Information Technology Professional. During that time I've watched corporate America transform IT from a profession staffed and managed by technologists into an outsourceable commodity managed by MBA's. The uniform suggestion is an idea worthy only of ridicule. Why not suggest to the MBA who floated that idea that it be mandated all MBA's working in IT departments wear big floppy shoes and a bright red shirt to work Monday thru Thursday so they can more easily identify each other as clowns? The rest of us already know who the clowns are.
... my programming, network engineering and security skills have fallen into such decline that I'm forced to take a management position. Until then, I'll wear collarless shirts and no socks thank you very much.
I'm a McAfee customer and responsible for the Anti-Virus and host intrusion prevention security engineering for 170,000 + workstations and servers managed by ePO. The software vulnerability disclosed today is found in ePO agents (the software that allows communication between the endpoint and the ePO server) prior to the latest release. The agent which is not vulnerable was released early this year to support some hooks into McAfee's recently released Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) product called "Entercept." This morning I received an e-mail from our customer support engineering contact at McAfee advising that the vulnerability is somewhat obscure, would require reverse engineering of proprietary McAfee code and no exploit has thus far been observed in the field. Since the fix, the current release of the agent, has been in the field for about the same length of time as the discovery of the vulnerability, this whole situation in my opinion is somewhat of a non event, as long as you keep your AV, agent and ePO software current. If you manage an enterprise under ePO and you don't keep your AV and ePO software current, you're begging for trouble. So you're right, no fault, no foul on McAfee's part.
This was a failure by the analyist who didn't feel it manditory to follow the rules.
As an IT security engineer for a very large health maintenance organization, trying to prevent our physicians, administrative people and business oriented wonks from committing gross acts of security stupidity turns out to be one of the biggest challenges. Organizations need to drive hard to make sure employees are aware that putting sensitive information in positions of vulnerability will invariably lead to compromise that is simply unacceptable. Without security as a mindset, these compromises are guaranteed to continue. I believe the analyst who compromised the data was fired, so it's obviously going to take more than just threatening the offender with termination to prevent future blunders.
... does the same thing to our corporate e-mail. Our human resources department (outside contracted stooges for senior management) regularly orders employee laptops siezed for "forensic investigation" often resulting in employee termination if content considered by management to be offensive or unauthorized is discovered (MP3 files, personal photos, etc.) My employer has a large IT shop, and is located right here in Southern California. One need not travel to China to find draconian behavioral control practices. But... hey, it pays well enough for me to keep my personal content on my personal laptop, so why am I complaining?
Of course, journalists constantly get the raw end of treatment from the government, and journalists are constantly testing the Constitutionality of their First Ammendment Rights, as well as their rights to protect the identity of their sources; a concept that is central to maintaining a free press. When sources are not assured *by law* that journalists won't be allowd to keep their sources confidential, they quit talking and as a result government becomes less accountable. That makes the assertion of journalists claims to source confidentiality under shield laws even *more* important, not less so.
As a former journalist (defined by my 5 years of employment as a writer/photograhper at a daily newspaper in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with a circulation of over 100K) I can tell you that the shield law does matter. I'm far less concerned over bloggers not receiving equal protection under the shield law than I am that the effectiveness of the shield law may be diluted by the controversy over bloggers credentials as journalists. I'll feel that way until some as yet to be defined in my mind number of bloggers are willing to go to jail for the right to keep sources confidential. Sorry if this sounds hostile, but to a journalist the shield law is a significant issue.
Read his bio at http://www.dvorak.org/shortbio.htm Dvorak spews for a living in copyrighted publications. Those are his credentials. End of story. Dvorak's boss likes him because when Dvorak spews he makes that publication's WinTel buying readership feel better about their own bad decisions. Ultimately Dvorak's drivel to an uninformed readership contributes to subscription renewals. That's it. Dvorak's publisher made Dvorak an authority and handed Dvorak his credentials because he sells magazines.
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Unfortunately, you're right. If you want to have an intelligent technical disucussion, banter about technology with smart people, and keep up on the latestest while mixing with truly hip people you have to hang around Starbucks, not cable TV.
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Eventhough TSS is down the drain, G4 has degenerated into the Millie Vanilli of tech talk and Leo has long since departed; those of us in Los Angeles can catch Leo on KFI and avoid paying toll charges. It's one of the few redeeming characteristics of living in a cultural wasteland. You can check out Leo here (http://leoville.tv/radio/pmwiki.php)
As a devout military supporter, as a veteran myself, as the son of a WWII vet and the father of a US Navy sailor, I too was slightly offended by the trivialization of the raising of the flag over Iwo as characterized by the NetBSD demons; although I have enough brains to understand they probably meant no harm and intended no insult. Your unimaginative and immature posting however, profoundly disturbs me. Unless you're a Japanese national, or your own relatives were of Axis national origin, you owe a personal debt of gratitude to those who defended civilized society in uncivilized times by giving up their lives in defence of liberty, truth, justice and the human condition. You obviously fail to recognize your own place in history; and I'm embarrassed for you. On the other hand, there may possibly be a more rational explaination for your obnoxious behavior; perhaps you're French?
I'll be right over with an external Firewire/USB2 combo drive, just give me a minute to run over and buy him a Firewire card in case he doesn't have one already. BTW, I'll buy dinner, you guys like Chinese?
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I have a Dyson vacuum cleaner with a motor that spins 3 times faster than that. WTF?
is on an organizational par with the janitorial department.
Uh, FP
For the past 28 years I've been an Information Technology Professional. During that time I've watched corporate America transform IT from a profession staffed and managed by technologists into an outsourceable commodity managed by MBA's. The uniform suggestion is an idea worthy only of ridicule. Why not suggest to the MBA who floated that idea that it be mandated all MBA's working in IT departments wear big floppy shoes and a bright red shirt to work Monday thru Thursday so they can more easily identify each other as clowns? The rest of us already know who the clowns are.
... by tying a string around the beetle I could make that thing go where ever I wanted.
My left nut is an unreasonable price.
... my programming, network engineering and security skills have fallen into such decline that I'm forced to take a management position. Until then, I'll wear collarless shirts and no socks thank you very much.
I'm a McAfee customer and responsible for the Anti-Virus and host intrusion prevention security engineering for 170,000 + workstations and servers managed by ePO. The software vulnerability disclosed today is found in ePO agents (the software that allows communication between the endpoint and the ePO server) prior to the latest release. The agent which is not vulnerable was released early this year to support some hooks into McAfee's recently released Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) product called "Entercept." This morning I received an e-mail from our customer support engineering contact at McAfee advising that the vulnerability is somewhat obscure, would require reverse engineering of proprietary McAfee code and no exploit has thus far been observed in the field. Since the fix, the current release of the agent, has been in the field for about the same length of time as the discovery of the vulnerability, this whole situation in my opinion is somewhat of a non event, as long as you keep your AV, agent and ePO software current. If you manage an enterprise under ePO and you don't keep your AV and ePO software current, you're begging for trouble. So you're right, no fault, no foul on McAfee's part.
This was a failure by the analyist who didn't feel it manditory to follow the rules.
As an IT security engineer for a very large health maintenance organization, trying to prevent our physicians, administrative people and business oriented wonks from committing gross acts of security stupidity turns out to be one of the biggest challenges. Organizations need to drive hard to make sure employees are aware that putting sensitive information in positions of vulnerability will invariably lead to compromise that is simply unacceptable. Without security as a mindset, these compromises are guaranteed to continue. I believe the analyst who compromised the data was fired, so it's obviously going to take more than just threatening the offender with termination to prevent future blunders.
... does the same thing to our corporate e-mail. Our human resources department (outside contracted stooges for senior management) regularly orders employee laptops siezed for "forensic investigation" often resulting in employee termination if content considered by management to be offensive or unauthorized is discovered (MP3 files, personal photos, etc.) My employer has a large IT shop, and is located right here in Southern California. One need not travel to China to find draconian behavioral control practices. But ... hey, it pays well enough for me to keep my personal content on my personal laptop, so why am I complaining?
How can anyone take this article seriously? It was the Romulans who had a cloaking device, not the Klingons.
...no spam.
Of course, journalists constantly get the raw end of treatment from the government, and journalists are constantly testing the Constitutionality of their First Ammendment Rights, as well as their rights to protect the identity of their sources; a concept that is central to maintaining a free press. When sources are not assured *by law* that journalists won't be allowd to keep their sources confidential, they quit talking and as a result government becomes less accountable. That makes the assertion of journalists claims to source confidentiality under shield laws even *more* important, not less so.
As a former journalist (defined by my 5 years of employment as a writer/photograhper at a daily newspaper in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with a circulation of over 100K) I can tell you that the shield law does matter. I'm far less concerned over bloggers not receiving equal protection under the shield law than I am that the effectiveness of the shield law may be diluted by the controversy over bloggers credentials as journalists. I'll feel that way until some as yet to be defined in my mind number of bloggers are willing to go to jail for the right to keep sources confidential. Sorry if this sounds hostile, but to a journalist the shield law is a significant issue.
You mean Al Gore didn't file a patent to protect the intellectual property rights associated with his invention?
Read his bio at http://www.dvorak.org/shortbio.htm Dvorak spews for a living in copyrighted publications. Those are his credentials. End of story. Dvorak's boss likes him because when Dvorak spews he makes that publication's WinTel buying readership feel better about their own bad decisions. Ultimately Dvorak's drivel to an uninformed readership contributes to subscription renewals. That's it. Dvorak's publisher made Dvorak an authority and handed Dvorak his credentials because he sells magazines.
...until Lotus won't run.
... until Lotus won't run.
Yeah, but you have to pay for it.
Unfortunately, you're right. If you want to have an intelligent technical disucussion, banter about technology with smart people, and keep up on the latestest while mixing with truly hip people you have to hang around Starbucks, not cable TV.
Eventhough TSS is down the drain, G4 has degenerated into the Millie Vanilli of tech talk and Leo has long since departed; those of us in Los Angeles can catch Leo on KFI and avoid paying toll charges. It's one of the few redeeming characteristics of living in a cultural wasteland. You can check out Leo here (http://leoville.tv/radio/pmwiki.php)
As a devout military supporter, as a veteran myself, as the son of a WWII vet and the father of a US Navy sailor, I too was slightly offended by the trivialization of the raising of the flag over Iwo as characterized by the NetBSD demons; although I have enough brains to understand they probably meant no harm and intended no insult. Your unimaginative and immature posting however, profoundly disturbs me. Unless you're a Japanese national, or your own relatives were of Axis national origin, you owe a personal debt of gratitude to those who defended civilized society in uncivilized times by giving up their lives in defence of liberty, truth, justice and the human condition. You obviously fail to recognize your own place in history; and I'm embarrassed for you. On the other hand, there may possibly be a more rational explaination for your obnoxious behavior; perhaps you're French?
I'll be right over with an external Firewire/USB2 combo drive, just give me a minute to run over and buy him a Firewire card in case he doesn't have one already. BTW, I'll buy dinner, you guys like Chinese?
Naw, probably not, but what the heck?
Yellow substance good on hot dogs ... no, wait.