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    Diving Through The Information Barrage

    Browsing Posts published on May 4, 2006

    Biometrics Win Support From the Lazy:

    “We’re used to discussions about privacy and security, but amongst users, the real issue is ease of use, according to a survey by Unisys. It’s not a huge sample, but ten percent of the users in Asia were happy to be chipped and have done with it.” From the article: “Frost & Sullivan security analyst James Turner said while speed of identity verification may be driving people’s acceptance of biometrics, the key issue is that biometrics can be a security block, rather than an enabler. Turner added that what is more important in the smartcard debate is ratifying exactly where the identification data is stored. ”

    Why ZFS for home:

    I think a lot of us manage the stuff at work very differently that we manage our personal machines. And this is not a good thing.“ZFS scales from one drive to an infinite number of drives and has benefits for all of them. Let’s take a look at the average home computer a single drive holding a mix of files, up to 3GB drives are common. That is a lot of data to lose and its getting easier lose data these days. Further more new hard drives aren’t getting any more reliable with time. Of cours

    U.S. Army Advances Urban Combat Communications Using Secure Wireless Local Area Network Radio

    Army Moving to Secure Data at Afghan Base

    U.S.’s Cultural Ignorance

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