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Can I interest you in more security, sir?

The last week’s meeting of the IETF discussed security of the Internet and the recent revelations that the NSA turned the Internet into a giant surveillance machine. While the sentiment was clear that the Internet should not allow itself to such abuse, there is little evidence that anything at all could be done about it. ...

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Guard your secrets

I meant to write about the subject of spying and corporate information security for a while now but got around to it only now. The article Confessions of a Corporate Spy has provided an excellent background for the discussion and is absolutely worth a read. Twenty years ago the corporate spying was already abound and ...

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Brainwashing in security

At first, when I read the article titled Software Security Programs May Not Be Worth the Investment for Many Companies I thought it was a joke or a prank. But then I had a feeling it was not. And it was not the 1st of April. And it seems to be a record of events ...

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