Radio Shack managed to build itself a future even as DIY electronics waned. Their component aisles generally shrank to make room for new products as they adapted, but they adapted. NewEgg can too.
There is already reputation-based anti-SPAM in a commercial product that works well - Secure Computing's Ironmail (http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=1612) powered by TrustedSource.
No need to reinvent the wheel...
I'm a real estate industry tech consultant, and about seven years ago, one of my MLS clients heard my company speak about municipal WiFi and took matters for their small city in Michigan into their own hands. They set up a server to manage access points that were installed by their subscribers/members such that the companies that set up many useful access points got the 'splash screen ad' for those access points. WiFi use was limited to web and other standard ports, and knocked the user off after an hour so they would need to go through the splash screen (including Terms of Use) again. Anyway, this private approach to WiFi worked out well for everyone involved!
"The cable TV industry has argued that such an a la carte system would lead to higher prices, less programming diversity and fewer channels in part because advertising revenue would fall."
If I don't watch 200 of the channels I have access to now, they can't be counting me among the viewers of those channels and advertisers on those 200 channels surely aren't paying them for my eyeballs. What's changing for the advertisers if I don't pay for those channels - why would advertisers also pay cable less?
I disagree that responsibility rests with the intern in this matter in any way. It is unfair to blame him for not reading a policy.
It is a management responsibility to actively engage in an information security policy life cycle that includes, but is not limited to, the creation of procedures for implementing policy - such as encrypting backups and secure transport and storage of those backups and setting job responsibility for same - as well as providing for employee, consultant and intern education on policy that applies to their job responsibility. It is further a management responsibility to monitor and enforce the security policy.
My conclusion is that the highest levels of management are clearly the ones at fault for not having put in place an effective organizational information security program to protect the personal information with which they were entrusted.
One of the assumptions of a smart card solution (or a USB solution or a biometrics solution) is that the user has access to a computer that supports such a solution. In my business, I deal with mobile professionals that use many computers and other devices, many of which they do not control and could not install hardware or software on to support those types of authentication tokens, even if they were technically capable of it. For those types of applications, standalone keyfob type tokens (Secure Computing, RSA, etc.) still seem to be the best choice.
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Radio Shack managed to build itself a future even as DIY electronics waned. Their component aisles generally shrank to make room for new products as they adapted, but they adapted. NewEgg can too.
INCEPT DATE: 30 Dec, 2008. FUNCTION: Entertainment, pleasure model.
There is already reputation-based anti-SPAM in a commercial product that works well - Secure Computing's Ironmail (http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=1612) powered by TrustedSource. No need to reinvent the wheel...
I'd like mine to be named Pris, a "basic pleasure model"
I'm a real estate industry tech consultant, and about seven years ago, one of my MLS clients heard my company speak about municipal WiFi and took matters for their small city in Michigan into their own hands. They set up a server to manage access points that were installed by their subscribers/members such that the companies that set up many useful access points got the 'splash screen ad' for those access points. WiFi use was limited to web and other standard ports, and knocked the user off after an hour so they would need to go through the splash screen (including Terms of Use) again. Anyway, this private approach to WiFi worked out well for everyone involved!
"The cable TV industry has argued that such an a la carte system would lead to higher prices, less programming diversity and fewer channels in part because advertising revenue would fall." If I don't watch 200 of the channels I have access to now, they can't be counting me among the viewers of those channels and advertisers on those 200 channels surely aren't paying them for my eyeballs. What's changing for the advertisers if I don't pay for those channels - why would advertisers also pay cable less?
I disagree that responsibility rests with the intern in this matter in any way. It is unfair to blame him for not reading a policy. It is a management responsibility to actively engage in an information security policy life cycle that includes, but is not limited to, the creation of procedures for implementing policy - such as encrypting backups and secure transport and storage of those backups and setting job responsibility for same - as well as providing for employee, consultant and intern education on policy that applies to their job responsibility. It is further a management responsibility to monitor and enforce the security policy. My conclusion is that the highest levels of management are clearly the ones at fault for not having put in place an effective organizational information security program to protect the personal information with which they were entrusted.
One of the assumptions of a smart card solution (or a USB solution or a biometrics solution) is that the user has access to a computer that supports such a solution. In my business, I deal with mobile professionals that use many computers and other devices, many of which they do not control and could not install hardware or software on to support those types of authentication tokens, even if they were technically capable of it. For those types of applications, standalone keyfob type tokens (Secure Computing, RSA, etc.) still seem to be the best choice.