The security of open source software has been both idealized and made the subject of targeted disinformation.

Generally, two philosophies exist:
that open source is more secure because it is more rigorously reviewed;
and, that proprietary software is more secure because access to the source code is limited.
While seeming contradictory, both schools of thought have validity depending on circumstances. Open source philosophy states that open source software cannot rely on obscurity for security — because the source code is transparent, security must be implemented well at the source code level. Also, open collaboration is thought to result in the earlier discovery and correction of security flaws—an aspect of the thesis that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

If you treat it like a business problem and do a cost/benefit analysis which is what Schneier is suggesting, it may turn out to be true in this case where the cost to fix the security hole is far too expensive to cover the risk. This is common for many large businesses where they may treat the lives of people in their Data Center and hence put additional physical security controls there vs. someplace else as part of their Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery threat assessment process. It is always a tough thing to do when you ask the question on how do you place a value to human life. The airforce puts a value on the cost to replace a pilot vs. a plane but how do you place something similar to a passenger.

Link to the actual Telsra's social media policy itself and the blog post launching it.

This video is being hosted on the discovery channel and they have two stories before the robotic foosball player

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2009/daily-planet-february-3-2009/#clip136425

He was referring to navigator of the sub and not Netscape Navigator

Instead of trying to blacklist entire IP ranges on who can't access your web board, instead of a deny ruleset, put in an allow only ruleset. For example, you could plug in your university IP range only in the allow and issue redirects with a proper error message on anyone outside of the allowed range

One thing I can't figure out is why does Apple need to shut down their online store for updates? I would hope that they would treat it like any other roll out, create a test environment, make the necessary changes to your portal, update with all the new toys and products and then elevate to a production environment with the old portal pointing to the newly elevated site.

Sometimes ideas by employees just work. I know of a company which saved couple hundred thousand dollars by a employee suggestion on changing the default laser print settings from high quality to normal quality. You would be surprised sometimes in these economic conditions, how many dollars a simple employee suggestion could do. Those dollars saved probably saved some jobs.

Not always true. Most companies retain all IP( in this case ideas) whether on print or electronic media. So any upgraded "derivatives" can still be retained and put into concept

When you don't need TrueCrypt or for that matter any whole disk encryption software

A Crypto nerd's imagination
Person1: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million dollar cluster to crack it
Person2: No Good! Its 4096 bit RSA!
Person1: Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!

What would actually happen:
Person1: His Laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password
Person2: Got it

Source: http://xkcd.com/538/

Outside of Googlifying this with Gears, using IMAP with my Outlook or Thunderbird solved my offline GMail problem. Connect back to the network, sync and good to go. Nothing new here

Security awareness among the general user population has improved considerably. So, as a corporation which makes a living out of selling software, would it be outlandish to suggest that they intentionally post a malicious version of the software on torrent sites. More of these situations happen, would atleast the security conscious people abandon downloading software and consider buying? Maybe