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April 29, 2004
Poindexter Confidential
Wired Magazine has an iinterview with retired Admiral John Poindexter who has a Caltech PhD. The article says Poindexter may be "the only serious technologist ever to reach the highest circles of power in Washington." (I think John Sununu had a PhD in Engineering.) Of course, he's also famous for being the Big Brother in Chief. The interview is fascinating. I wish it were longer.
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Making CD-R's Last
From Doug Kaye I learned of an interesting article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements.
Update: Coincidentally, Steven Vore pointed to some NIST information on the same topic yesterday.
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Digital ID World 2004
Everytime I hear it, I think it would be a great name for an amusement park for geeks, but actually, its the premiere event for anyone interested in digital identity: Digital ID World. The third annual Digital ID World Conference will be held October 25-28, 2004 in Denver. For the last two years this has been among my favorite conferences. Good organization, good people, and great content. If digital identity is important to you, go to this conference. You won't be sorry.
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Identity Tops Security Priorities
The April 2004 Heat Index from Information Security Magazine lists identity management, user provisioning, and single sign-on as the top three highest priority IT security purchases of 175 Fortune 1000 companies.