Michael Gracie 

To get people thinking about the related issues, Marshall Kirkpatrick has put together a list of questions well worth asking, and discussing. It is indeed timely. Online social networking is already on fire, but there is a price to be paid as well – mashups galore are making it ever easier to get the data [...]

Interesting concept – Union Square Ventures proposes that while material goods have decreasing marginal utility, the value of data increases for each new byte added. It’s a stretch that presumes the human user has potentially infinite interests. And to capitalize indefinitely on the data store, the human user would also need infinite desires, wouldn’t they? [...]

I received a note this morning suggesting that while the actual effect the “teaser freezer” program may have on the foreclosure problem is still up in the air, at least now there’s some data coming out to work with. The numbers are preliminary, and highlights are as follows: There are 80 million homes, and approximately [...]

Bruce Schneier comments on data theft disclosure law, stating emphatically that the Data Accountability and Theft Act is too “watered down” to do much good. I guess my intuition engine is still running.

The Data Accountability and Trust Act could be going to a House vote soon. Somehow, someway, I smell “CAN-SPAM 2,” only much more serious. The legislation provides for consumer notice in the event of a breach, but only if there is “reasonable risk of identity theft to the individual to whom the personal information relates, [...]

Its on the laptop, and unencrypted, and now it has been stolen. In much the same flavor, I say keeping unencrypted data on a laptop is downright stupid. And as long as IT departments, including but not limited to senior management, allows their employees to carry extremely sensitive (and liability prone) data around in their [...]

Jon Oltsik of Enterprise Strategy Group reported on the state of security as large organizations, and the news is not good. You know the stories of data thefts at Choicepoint, Bank of America, and Siesint – large amounts of personal data stolen, and not necessarily via an IT hack. It seems they are the tip [...]

Spamroll was officially taken out of not-so-secret, partially working, but still password protected development on Monday, March 7, 2005 at roughly 5pm MST. Over the next few weeks, entries will be added to the archive for previously incomplete posts, including many which date back several months, while the site was under development. Meanwhile, new entries [...]

An interesting note was posted by Russell Beattie, entitled Mobile Security Thoughts. Getting some scoop on the Paris Hilton “My Phone Was Hacked Craze,” I think everyone will get the hint about mobile security after the read. Unfortunately, CNN, in the tradition of mass media skewing the picture in a wide ranging attempt to scare [...]