As is now visible on the donations page, Adobe has donated $7,500 to help fund OpenBSD and OpenSSH development. Hopefully as more well-known companies demonstrate that they understand that giving back to open source helps themselves, it will become harder for the others to justify their all-take-and-no-give feeling of entitlement.
Browsing Posts published on May 25, 2006
I just need to bump into James and get my hand within a few inches of him,“ Westhues says. We’re shivering in the early spring air outside the offices of Sandstorm, the Internet security company Van Bokkelen runs north of Boston. As Van Bokkelen approaches from the parking lot, Westhues brushes past him. A coil of copper wire flashes briefly in Westhues’ palm, then disappears. Van Bokkelen enters the building, and Westhues returns to me. ”Let’s see if I’ve got his keys,“ he says, meaning the signal from Van Bokkelen’s smartcard badge. The card contains an RFID sensor chip, which emits a short burst of radio waves when activated by the reader next to Sandstorm’s door. If the signal translates into an authorized ID number, the door unlocks.
Forget the NSA. Here’s another very scary list. Are you included?:
Every time a massive data theft or breaches happens, I keep kicking myself for not starting up that list of all such compromises that I promised myself I would start (and maintain here on ZDNet). The last one of these, which I think is also the largest, involved 26.5 million records containing the [...]
