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Comment Re: Voltage is pretty good (Score 1) 155

Voltage is very good, especially when combined with software/appliances that can scan email for Compliance (Business, HIPAA, ...)
that will then direct the emails to be encrypted.

The "weak" link in PGP or any other manual encryption is always the end user.

I've worked with Voltage, they're very professional and have gone above and beyond on support issues.
Blackberry

Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry 49

Posted by Soulskill from the slicing-up-that-sweet-taxpayer-pie dept.
rjupstate writes "The Pentagon is quickly moving to approve the latest devices and platforms from BlackBerry, Samsung, and Apple. That's good news for two of those companies. It's not-so-good news for BlackBerry. 'The Pentagon currently has about 600,000 smartphone users – almost all using BlackBerrys – but ultimately aims to have as many as 8m smartphones and tablets, under the terms of a scheme made public last November.' 'In its effort to expand into the high security government niche, one that BlackBerry has enjoyed near singular control of for years, Samsung recently created a government advisory board made up of Samsung executives and security experts from various U.S. and foreign government security agencies. ... In the end, the program will likely elevate that status of both Apple and Samsung within military and civilian government agencies in the U.S. and other western countries.'"

Comment Re:Behold the tautology! (Score 1) 150

by bobstreo (#43473231) Attached to: Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage

It is better to be competent, than incompetent. It is better to have the servers in house if you are competent. Of course, if you are competent, then you already have the servers in house ;-)

To become very very competent, outsource, then insource the same services every few years.
Usually the outsourcing will move you to a cloud based service.
AMD

AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever 305

Posted by Soulskill from the pulling-a-reverse-firefox dept.
mikejuk writes "This is a strange story. AMD Vice President of Global Channel Sales Roy Taylor has said there will be no DirectX12 at any time in the future. In an interview with German magazine Heise.de, Taylor discussed the new trend for graphics card manufacturers to release top quality game bundles registered to the serial number of the card. One of the reasons for this, he said, is that the DirectX update cycle is no longer driving the market. 'There will be no DirectX 12. That's it.' (Google translation of German original.) Last January there was another hint that things weren't fine with DirectX when Microsoft sent an email to its MVPs saying, 'DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology.' That statement was quickly corrected, but without mentioning any prospect of DirectX 12. So, is this just another error or rumor? Can we dismiss something AMD is basing its future strategy on?"

Comment Re:mission creepy (Score -1, Troll) 60

by bobstreo (#43358145) Attached to: Microsoft, NYC Marketing Vast Surveillance System To Other Cities

it has figured in a number of investigative coups that went beyond the systemâ(TM)s original purpose of counterterrorism in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attack

They aren't even pretending it's just anti-terrorism.

it was developed by cops for cops

I'm sure it doesn't track every movement of every person in New York and store it in a database indefinitely. That will be version 2.0.

Nah it doesn't track white people yet.

Comment It all boils down to (Score 3, Insightful) 180

by bobstreo (#43311065) Attached to: The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers

What level of risk you're willing to bet on your Internet connection(s).

It will be less than optimal when 20,000 kids in the school are streaming netflix in their dorm rooms while
their professors are trying to work on their research grants on the file servers in the clouds.

Combine that with multiple legal implications of the data being contained on the low bidder data center most of these kind of people will pick

From the article:
>>IT managers says a big reason for the shift is IT pros don't want to work in data centers at small-to-mid size firms that can't offer them a career path. Hank >>Seader, managing principal of the Uptime Institute, said that it takes a 'certain set of legacy skills, a certain commitment to the less than glorious career fields >>to make data centers work, and it's hard to find people to do it.'"
Which to me means "The real reason we can't find anyone to work in our data centers or provide any career path is that we're unwilling to pay anything above minimum wage."

Comment Re:Why are people not being alerted? (Score 4, Funny) 179

by bobstreo (#43307389) Attached to: Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks

There are over 25 million known open DNS resolvers that can be used in DNS amplification attacks. Directly contacting the administrators of all the servers used in the attack is not a tractable problem

It sounds like the solution is to send out a huge amount of unsolicited email.

Oh, wait ...

Well we could do a kickstarter, and hire our friends at Cyberbunker to host the email sending...

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