Here are some of my thoughts on the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia, which I first began distilling into a comment for Dan Gillmor’s blog entry today. (more…)

In yet another example of my devotion to recycling, I turned my April 12 blog entry about Google and ChoicePoint into a monthly column for eSecurity Planet.

I just finished reading a breathtakingly arrogant interview with Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon, the nation’s largest telephone company. And the philosophy of “we don’t have to care, we’re the phone company!” is laid bare time and again through the interview. (more…)

Another day, another privacy breach. This time, it was credit card data stolen from Polo/Ralph Lauren (remember! Carson on Queer Eye taught us all that it’s pronounced ‘LOR-en’…) belonging to HSBC customers holding a GM affinity card. As many as 187,000 people may be affected.

What could possibly be causing this epidemic of data-spills? (more…)

Through a strange series of circumstances I happened to be looking at the website for the really fantastic sci-fi television show The 4400, and I saw the following: (more…)