PAUL ROBERTS
Electronic Voting: No Levers Required
Perhaps motivated by the fact that his own election fate hung in the chads for a while, the president allotted $3.9 billion to help states replace outdated voting machines.
Fingerprint Biometrics: Pressure Tactics
Scientists in the United Kingdom have announced the development of biometric devices that detect finger pressure.
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace: A Call to Inaction
Bush's National Strategy has a hands-off approach, essentially asking the private sector to police and solve its own security problems.
Lobbying and FUD: Who's Afraid?
Getting caught crying wolf on issues of national security could have serious ramifications, says Jim Albertine, president of the American League of Lobbyists.
I'll See Your Website in Court
A December ruling by the High Court of Australia found that a story published by Dow Jones & Co. on a U.S.-hosted website can be grounds for a defamation lawsuit in Australia.
Erase Your Hard Disk: The Cold, Hard Drive Facts
According to a new study by two MIT grad students, companies are frequently selling or giving away old computer disk drives with sensitive information still on them.
Heuristic Analysis: E-Mail Filtering the Garden of Good and Evil
Heuristic analysis, an e-mail scanning technique that sifts through e-mail messages for the characteristics and behaviors that are unique to spam messages, may help.
TRUSTe: Brother, Can You Spare Some Privacy?
Companies that wish to display the TRUSTe seal on their website will have to demonstrate a higher level of privacy protection for customer data.
Homeland Security Act and the Power of Disclosure
Civil Libertarians are in a dither again, this time over new disclosure provisions for Internet service providers that are contained within the recently signed Homeland Security Act (HSA).
SB1386 Passes; California Comes Clean
Like an earthquake threatening a seismic shift, California is a state on the move.
Privacy and Data Protection Practices
In this Webcast, Larry Ponemon and Compuware will present the results of their benchmark study and discuss what these organizations are doing to safeguard their information assets and comply with the plethora of industry regulations.
Comparing Research in Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
Organizations must look carefully at the requirements of mobile devices and accompanying middleware that can increase cost, complexity and administrative overhead. This white paper provides an independent analysis and detailed comparison of RIM and Microsoft's mobile solution.
