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The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment The first step in this plan is what Pavitt calls the "infrastructure 101" - making sure all the fundamentals at the network and core infrastructure level are there, removing single points of failure, removing design flaws and double and triple... [29 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment According to this concept your system can have plenty of flaws - but if nobody knows where they are it isn't a problem. The idea is that if the rest of the execs can't spot the CIO's flaws, then they won't be able to sack him or her. [06 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment There are some actual flaws in the operating system itself but these are buried under a mound of mostly irrelevant flaws with respect to how users of OS X use OS X. He did the same thing last spring, he counted flaws in open source software that... [03 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Among the concerns raised by official independent election observers from the Open Rights Group (ORG) were fears that flaws in systems already used could allow hackers to steal authentication details, monitor how somebody had voted and even change... [29 Jun 2007]
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Comment Are there any flaws at the design level? Why is Sun's Java going the GPL open source route? Are software development costs doomed to spiral out of control? And is Microsoft destined to rule the enterprise forever? [19 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: You're not travelling, you're atlarge.com
Comment A top-down directory has its flaws. Before the end of the year I wanted to take the opportunity to use (abuse? this blog to talk about atlarge.com. Not being averse to dot-coms - and not shying away from a suffix that I know in some ways sounds so... [19 Dec 2006]
Leader: Bird flu threat highlights disaster-planning flaws
Leader The threat of a worldwide flu pandemic - whether you believe it is being over-hyped or not - on the back of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, highlights some serious problems with business continuity planning today: the human angle. [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: Why public support for ID cards is falling
Leader The government looks set to continue its attempts to steamroller its ID cards legislation through parliament this week, despite evidence that public support for the controversial scheme is collapsing as people - albeit belatedly - begin to realise... [13 Mar 2006]
Leader: IT at the heart of T5
Leader But you can't decide on your technology too early - if you do, the technology becomes obsolete or its flaws become known and exploited. The construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport is a massive project that will mean some big improvements for... [20 Feb 2006]
Leader: Catch a thief
Leader Criminals and hackers are experts at finding flaws, so it's better for the banks to find them first. Thanks to the introduction of CCTV, sophisticated alarm systems and forensic methods, bank robbers have changed tactics - the risk of getting... [29 Nov 2005]
New anti-terrorist law is a lose-lose scenario for IT
Comment We got the Home Office to recognise the potential security flaws in that proposal - no CSP could be sure who was requesting information and the request could be duplicated again and again by each section in each police force. [26 Oct 2005]
Jonathan Steel's Blog: Is Microsoft growing up?
Comment Buggy software, critical security flaws, lack of a credible high-volume 24/7 transaction environment or middleware, blah blah blah. So the IT industry's Peter Pan is finally leaving Neverland for Wal-Street. [09 Aug 2005]
Leader: Why the Cisco router flaw row makes us all losers
Leader But at the moment there is a sense that too often the industry releases products too soon and just waits for the security researchers and hackers to spot flaws. News of a potential weakness in Cisco routers has been causing a few sleepless nights. [01 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Your PC will never be safe
Comment It turns out that it often contains flaws that could actually enable an attack. The complexity of defensive software makes it inevitable that there will be some flaws. Martin Brampton discusses this great conundrum of the security industry. [05 Jul 2005]
Leader: Why silicon.com is taking on ID cards
Leader You may have noticed that today silicon.com launched a new campaign - ID Cards on Trial - aimed at exposing flaws in the government's ID card plans which we believe have the potential to turn the whole affair into a costly and embarrassing IT... [06 Jun 2005]
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