Now we’ve all had a chance to digest the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud announcement and the dust has settled I’m joining the fray with a “scoop of interpretation“. Positioned as “a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud” the product is (like Google’s Secure Data Connector for App […]
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Information systems security
This is an open letter to the CAcert.org board and membership (including my fellow 20-30 official “Association Members” (copied) as well as the 150,000 or so account holders we effectively represent) concerning recent events that could affect the ongoing viability of the organisation. Bearing in mind that this is an organisation built on trust, I […]
I was just trying to respond to ZDnet’s hot-off-the-press article (The cloud bites back: Google bug shared private Google Docs data) about the recent Google Docs sharing vulnerability but ZDnet’s servers are throwing errors. Anyway now that Google have announced that they “believe the issue affected less than 0.05% of all documents” (rather than just […]
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Windows 7: Windows Vista Lite?
There’s no denying that Vista was a failure. A complete and utter disappointment. An unmitigated disaster. Microsoft have even essentially admitted it themselves, finally accepting what users, reviewers and wary businesses have been saying since before it even hit the shelves. It just didn’t bring enough benefit for its significant cost (early estimates were talking […]
A few months back (‘Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat‘) I analysed how the iPhone interacted with the new MobileMe service with a view to offering the same features to Google Apps customers. Unfortunately this is not yet possible (the APIs don’t exist on both sides of the […]
There has been a good deal of talk of late on the important topic of security and privacy in relation to cloud computing. Indeed there are some legitimate concerns and some work that needs to be done in this area in general, but I’m going to focus today on the latter term (indeed they are […]
Although Dell have been denied the ill-fated cloud computing trademark (that’s lowercase please. hold the ™) and moved on to more interesting things, they’re yet to concede defeat and withdraw their application. Even though the double decker bus has disappeared from the moon, that leaves us with 6 months of uncertainty before USPTO consider it […]
Google Chrome is a lot more than a next generation browser; it’s a prototype Cloud Operating Environment. Rather than blathering on to the blogosphere about the superficial features of Google’s new Chrome browser I’ve spent the best part of my day studying the available material and [re]writing a comprehensive Wikipedia article on the subject which […]
Most of us rely heavily (more heavily than we realise, and indeed should) on this rickety old thing called DNS (the Domain Name System), which was never intended to scale as it did, nor to defend against the kinds of attacks it is subjected to today. The latest DNS related debacle is (as per usual) […]
So those of you who anticipated a Jabber/XMPP chat client on the iPhone (and iPod Touch) after TUAW rumoured that ‘a new XMPP framework has been spotten(sic) in the latest iPhone firmware‘ back in April were close… but no cigar. Same applies for those who hypothesised about P-IMAP or IMAP IDLE being used by MobileMe […]
Sam Johnston 