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IT security vs. the construction industry

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:00:17 +0000

On the Risky Business podcast last week, Andrew Wilson, the CEO of Australian cryptography gear maker Senetas, stated that many businesses see the bad things that happen from poor IT security as just a cost of doing business. Nothing revolutionary

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CISPA is trying to solve a legitimate problem

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:01:25 +0000

I read yet another anti-CISPA piece today. I’m not comfortable trying to read it and decide whether it’s a good or bad piece of legislation, but I do understand the problem it’s trying to solve. Those who have tried to

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A reasonable analysis of the current copyright mess (updated)

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:37:03 +0000

Well, that was a disappointment. It was retracted nearly as quickly as it burst onto the scenes. Crud. A reasoned, level-headed analysis of the problems that current copyright law creates rocked Slashdot yesterday. The amazing thing is, this thing came

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Digital distribution, not SOPA and PIPA, is the best long-term solution for the MPAA

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:42:30 +0000

Fightforthefuture.org declared victory yesterday, saying that SOPA and PIPA have been dropped. Their e-mail said some other important and interesting things, but most importantly, it made some references to China. Communist China. Totalitarian Communist China. The distinction is important. One

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And it seems that today things worked how they’re supposed to

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:23:18 +0000

Today, the Web protested SOPA and PIPA in various ways. And though momentum seemed to start shifting as long as a week ago, the protest went on, and some Washington politicians started changing sides, suggesting that maybe, just maybe, sometimes

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Fighting spam two ways

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:57:28 +0000

I read a statement in a very right-leaning publication not long ago that made me really mad. It made the statement that government regulation is never the solution to a problem, and the problem of spam should be dealt with through software, not legislation.

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Copyright terriorists can’t take what they dish out

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:04:00 +0000

Aw, poow widdle awe-aye-ay-ay! Poow widdle bay-bee!

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