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What do Anat Kamm, Ehud Barak and Meir Dagan have in common? Ehud Barak is current Israeli Minister of Defense, former IDF Chief of Staff and former Prime Minister  that led the disastrous withdrawal from Lebanon that fomented Intifada II and then Lebanese War II.  Barak is famous for quotes like “If I was a Palestinian, I …

Obama’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace In April President Obama signed the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) which charts a course for the public and private sectors to collaborate on raising the level of trust associated with identity in online transactions. NSTIC focuses on upgrading outdated password-based authentication systems and …

I’m getting some push back on LinkedIn on my articles on banning Microsoft Windows from medical devices that are installed in hospitals – read more about why Windows is a bad idea for medical devices here and here. Scott Caldwell tells us that the FDA doesn’t rule “out” or “in” any particular technology, including Windows …

Ian Fleming once remarked how American road signs were so sexy – “winding curves” and “soft shoulders”. I was thinking of Ian Fleming  taking an unexpected 5K walk at night on the shoulders of a 6 line freeway. Last night I was driving my daughter’s car on Route 6.   There was a leak in the …

Help protect your baby by protecting yourself. Our daughter and son-in-law stayed with us over the weekend recently – listening to one of the babies cough, I realized that there is a lot more to life than enterprise information protection and cost-effective data loss prevention.

Walking down the street this afternoon – I could not believe my eyes. I see this  bike streak by down the main street. A father riding a bike (with a helmet) and baby in back seat (with helmet) – talking on a cell phone. Now That’s Foolish and Dangerous.

It just occurred to me – as our partner in Poland was getting ready to drive from Warsaw to Łęczyca for a sales call – that novel H1N1 (swine flu) and seasonal influenza is a great reason to use social media and Web conferencing for customer contacts, sales and support and reduce physical contact and …

Don’t ask me why, but I was invited (and joined) the Pakistan Networkers group on LinkedIn.  I see all kinds of cool job opportunities in the Emirates which I can’t really take but the traffic is interesting. I saw this picture in a post today from the Pakistan Networkers group. It graphically describes the complexity …

Martin Hellman (of Diffie Hellman) fame maintains the Nuclear Risk web site and has written a very insightful piece on risk analysis of nuclear war entitled Soaring, cryptography and nuclear weapons Hellman proposes that we need a  third state scenario (instead current state – > nuclear war) where the risk of nuclear holocaust has been …

If you thought that working in high-tech  is  rough – just consider how tough it is to be a musician in Afghanistan. JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign …