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What value identity?
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| (Friday, 24 April 2009) Written by Anthony Olivier |
| I came across this interesting comment: " Market saturation has driven down the price of credit card details on the black market. Details that were valued at around $10 to $16 per record in mid-2007, are now sold for less than 50 cents per record today."
All of which is an indictment on the inability of the security industry to protect private data.
See the article at Are hackers working for the mob? |
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CIA
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| (Tuesday, 03 March 2009) Written by Anthony Olivier |
| Marinus van Aswegen is a personal friend with unusual clarity of thought on matters security.
He recently posted a commentary on the relevancy of the CIA security mantra at his blog which led to fairly intense discussion in my team. It's worth reviewing, if only because he presents an interesting example of a fraud that breaches none of these principles.
Semantics - perhaps; but it highlights the degree to which we should think - rather than just accept - the precepts that we follow. Nice one Mr VA |
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Third life?
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| (Tuesday, 03 March 2009) Written by Anthony Olivier |
| Interesting commentary on the waning fortunes of Secondlife.
The thing is, I understand the sentiment. My avatar probably still wanders the fields of this virtual world, talking to strangers and occasionally amusing itself by flying overhead - but I never found the volition to invest more time than it took to understand the environment.
However - I never believed Secondlife to be an end-goal, only a platform to integrate into other applications and do coherent and valuable stuff within the interesting environment.
Secondlife may be experiencing waning interest, but this is as much the result of being over-hyped as anything. I'd be surprised - and disappointed - if it doesn't re-emerge in a new and more interesting form in the future. Secondlife, I'm convinced, has a third life in the wings. |
