I know I am engaging in post-mortem equine floggery, but Rob Pegoraro over at the Washington Post agrees with what techies have been telling the computer shopping public for several years now: choose a Mac over a PC as your home computer. The nice thing about Mr Pegoraro’s article, is that he’s a much better […]
More fallout from the Sony/Columbia/Epic/BMG XCP rootkit exlpoit is detailed on Wired (first time I’ve read Wired in a while). Yikes, the after-effects of such a stupid corporate blunder, compounded by so many people running their MS Windows systems effectively wide open (no security to speak of), are turning out to be huge. Hopefully there […]
There is an interesting new story about Sony’s new DRM online, and it illustrates another of the many deceptions the big media companies use to skew perception. Just like piracy had nothing to do with the RIAA’s fear of digital audio tape (they were really afraid musicians would be able to create their own masters […]
I just read about the “Witty Worm” on SlashDot and need to revise my advice for those poor souls with the misfortune of running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Previously I recommended that anyone running Windows should use a firewall; today I must revise that and suggest that you use an external hardware-device firewall. The “Witty […]
I have long been looking for an outbound application monitor and blocker for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system that would function like ZoneLab‘s ZoneAlarm on Microsoft Windows. I think I finally found one in Objective Development’s Little Snitch (Commercial $24.95, free three hour demo). What both ZoneAlarm and Little Snitch do is watch your […]
