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"They have neglected to publicize a post-mortem..." I am sure that more granular details of the attack will eventually come out, if they are not...

At the end of the day, so to speak, one of the biggest problems is the unintended consequences, something we are all familiar with these days. We...

Malware stats are subject to the law of large numbers; the huge market share of Windows makes it the platform to attack. If we ever see the year of...

Jack - not just the advertising but the Web tools, like Google Analytics, which is how Google can associate you searching for say 'how do I declare...

Time that the case just went away, just like the Phorm case reported on ZDNet today. Reading the article, I don't see a strictly legal case to...

@apexwm I was simply pointing out the naivety of your statement that "if they don't want their information stored at Google, then they shouldn't...

kernel.org and linuxfoundation.org are run by the people *most* knowledgeable about Linux and security. You do not find anyone anywhere who knows...

Is this the beginning of the end to freedom of speech???

Jack, what is your definition of " a partial PaaS"? I haven't heard the term partial PaaS or full PaaS before. Sounds a bit like hedging on...

Yes, stricly speaking, McKinnon is wanted for 'stealing' blank passwords (an impossibility if ever there was one, not to mention that passwords...

Crucially, without the damage, McKinnon's actions are not an extraditable offence. Even his admissions to the non-extraditable Summary Offence are...

Interestingly, at a recent conference held by analyst STL Partners, security was no longer top of the list of concerns. Instead, it was IT jobs...

Jack : I am not saying I agree with Google excessively tracking users. But, I think social networks (i.e. Facebook, Google+) are doing much worse...

@apexwm Google puts a long-life cookie on your hard drive, and a Wall Street Journal article found it tracked you more than anybody else because...

servermanagement : Agreed. I highly recommend using a non-Internet Explorer browser, if you are using Windows, like Firefox or Chrome. And in...

Ironically I have just re-read / re-listened-to Cory Doctorow's "Scroogled" which just shows that, thus far, Google is not that Evil at all.

@toast171 You're asking for *facts* about Windows on a blog called "The open source revolution"? ;-)

Google and any of these services aren't going to know your name and personal data, other than your IP address, client, etc. that is obtainable...

Do you have statistics on thenumber of incidents on Windows rising at the end of 2011, or is it just an assertion?

@James Watters Thanks for pointing that out. Amazon has developed significant PaaS capabilities since Vogels first said that a little under a year...