kapheroph

• Revision3 CEO: No Suit Against MediaDefender In The Works ( 2mth ago )
  "Hats off to Jim Louderback for handling this like a gentleman. I would think that Revision3 would have enough of a community voice to see this gets properly handled by the appropriate channels. I do however, think that MediaDefender's business practices and ethical standards should be reviewed thoroughly as blindly DDoSing servers without doing even a little reconnaissance and/or try to timely contact the source. DDoSing should not be a valid solution for a business to start with, in my opinion."
  
  
• 13 Online Tools For Beer Lovers ( 3mth ago )
  "I'm sorry but any good beer story is a bound to get nobosh'ed by me just on principal."
  
  
• Slide Losing Facebook Slideshow Battle To Newcomer Animoto ( 4mth ago )
  "This is good news, as I have yet to see a good use for the so called "Funwall" other than being a honeypot for spam chain letters and old and repeated video stupidity. Although I must admit I have seen a few slide presentations that have been informative and well done, but they seem to be few and far between. I only mention my distaste for the funwall application because it has marred my outlook on Slide. Animoto seem to have a vision other than stupidity and viral messaging. Let's hope the right people implement it, and they do it well."
  
  
• AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 ( 4mth ago )
  "@pollyp I'm not surprised that people are still confused about the concept of Net Neutrality. I can't say that I 100% understand it either but the way I see it is this: Some of the major corporations and ISPs realise the value of content on the internet and want to put restrictions on what their users can view. Think of this as a subscriber base if you will. You pay them for their service which will give you access to their and and their affiliates sites. To view something that is not provided by the original service you may need to subscribe to a different service as well. Kind of like pay TV and how you purchase different channels only you are paying for access to different sites and domains. This is an extreme worst case scenario as I'm positive there will still be plenty of sites that are in the "public" domain. I think that it would be just major corporations that would want to charge for access. Net Neutrality calls for every service to be neutral, all sites available to all."
  
  
• Twitter Account + Followers For Sale On eBay ( 4mth ago )
  "The way I look at it is this, he is betraying his followers. I don't mean that in a nasty way, I just mean that if you think of a follower as a media subscriber it's not the thing you would generally do. Granted the followers have the option of "un"following another user but they chose to follow the orignal account holder for a reason of probable personal interest rather than the name of the account. This doesn't sway my opinion of Andrew Baron either way because I think he did it out of interest to see what would happen. But if someone planned to generate a large follower base and then try to sell it off just for profit.... then I would think differently. In any case I think it's an interesting marketing experiment to test the value of a social network's userbase."
  
  
• Anti-virus software isn't the only computer security tool ( 4mth ago )
  "@techVision Unfortunately that depends on your user base and what you need to gain by external network access (the internet) as there is no magical answer. Every organisation needs a different set of guidelines depending on their needs. For some organisations the best way could to be to hold an official meeting and drill them with rules and regulations. But this will only impact on the few that are genuinely interested. The best way in my opinion is to get those interested people together to gain a collective knowledge base and make sure that filters down through to the rest of the employees. Employees are more likely to listen and take notice of other workmates rather than than the boss or some random person standing out the front talking. I'm running out room sorry, feel free to mail me if you want more info as I could talk about this all day and as it was I had to cut some out. But the main point is good workplace / departmental communication and respect for the workplace."
  
  
• Anti-virus software isn't the only computer security tool ( 4mth ago )
  "No matter what network restrictions you put in place or what security policy you try to implement you can never protect the user against themselves. With social networks growing there is a rise in link sharing and email forwarding, not to mention drive by downloads and iframe trickery and the like that sit quietly on infected web pages. You can lock a whole network down as tight as you can, but you can never protect yourself fully from an uneducated user. Social engineering is still the biggest risk (in my opinion) to most networks, the more users the more risk. I guess my point here is that an educated user that can be trusted not to abuse policies and privileges is the best security tool."