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Leader: Workplace security getting better?
Leader But there's also the essential but less talked about issue of physical security - making sure malcontents can't get their hands on your desktop PC, laptop, handheld, server, whatever, in the first place. [13 May 2004]
ANALYSIS: VAT - Virtual Added Tax?
Comment Real world taxes are based on the idea of a physical presence: you are charged where you pay, where you live or where you eat. When applied to the Internet, a physical point of sale is not so clear-cut. [07 Oct 1998]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Christmas shopping 2002
Comment The positive selling attitude, modern mall facilities, parking and road transport of the US makes physical shopping a pleasure, while the converse is the case in the UK and much of the EU. It was the year when I purchased more gifts and spent more... [02 Jan 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment
Comment Talk to any designer of radio systems for military applications and they will immediately regale you with their ongoing competition for physical space. Each requires its own antenna space - yet the laptop and mobile device is far more of a physical... [07 Jan 2008]
Opinion: Don't forget security when you wrap up for Christmas
Comment In the physical world we lock our premises, put in burglar alarms and take out insurance policies. Just as physical security is a mixture of community and individual actions so online recovery should be as well. [15 Dec 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Your communications - compromised
Comment On the physical side it seems to be generally accepted networks built from copper wires are reasonably secure, while those built from optical fibre are incredibly secure - and all things wireless are as leaky as a sieve. [18 Sep 2002]
Chief security officer: The newest job title in the IT department?
Comment Survey after survey has shown that it is not a good idea for companies to separate physical security from IT security. Physical security is even lower down the food chain. Physical and information technology should be treated as inseparable bed... [12 Mar 2003]
Flat Eric quits the Web as Levi's finds ecommerce doesn't fit
Comment Amazon.com has a physical presence in three countries but it claims to have customers in 160. Setting up a chain of physical retail outlets with access to customers in 160 countries in the time it's taken Amazon to achieve this online is quite well... [24 Nov 1999]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment The reality is that for all organisations, wide area networking is going to involve a mixture of public and private physical networks, the performance of which is always going to be variable. In reality of course for all but the largest... [09 Jul 2007]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment If Mondex were just for use in the physical world, Professor Watkins would have a point. There are also physical and virtual world implementations globally which are converging all the time. Smartcards, stupid idea? [06 Oct 2000]
Criminal IT: The crime you can still get away with
Comment Since changing a '1' to a '0' is a central function of a working disk drive, and simply changing the information on a disk drive doesn't impair its physical nature, altering a file could not be counted as 'damage' within the meaning of the law. [28 Apr 2005]
Ebusiness Despatches: René Carayol on diversity in business
Comment The web has no geographical barriers: We're used to making that point nowadays so it's become a bit blasé, but it's truly earth-shattering for a world constructed around physical and political space. But the advent of internet cafés and giving low... [13 Dec 2000]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment The fact that so many areas of IT are affected by virtualisation is perhaps testament to how fundamental a concept it is to separate computer resource from the underlying physical hardware - and demonstrates this is a strategic issue with a broad... [15 May 2007]
Inside offshoring: Managing the risks
Comment Although people risk is the most serious issue, the perception most people have is that physical and geopolitical issues pose the most potential hazard for Indian offshoring. In terms of physical risk we kept all our systems physically in the UK... [02 Jun 2004]
Identity theft: security threats get personal
Comment Adrian Wright, director of IT security at Reuters UK, told silicon.com that the lack of necessary physical presence can create a way in for the criminal. The internet is an ideal channel for those who wish to create multiple personalities because... [13 Nov 2000]
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