stop the madness and just switch to an open-source browser

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on December 16, 2008 at 6:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Yet another major security flaw found in Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s proprietary web browser. Via the BBC:
Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their […]

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army & navy to air force: “we want in on Cyber Command”

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on August 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

For just a moment — a moment — I saw the headline Air Force Halts Cyber Command Program and though: great news! Some of you may have noticed the air force’s recent power grab, declaring that cyberspace is their’s to protect:

Back in November of 2006 the 8th Air Force became the new “Air Force Cyberspace […]

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apple’s long-arm tactics

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on August 18, 2008 at 4:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

No one could of seen this one coming (cough). Apple has embedded a remote kill switch in the iPhone’s operating system that allows them to deactivate applications of their choosing — including applications which were knowingly installed by an iPhone’s owner. According to Wired’s Gadget Lab:
Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, […]

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outtake: governing the semantic web

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on August 14, 2008 at 1:03 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

Another outtake from the article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state:
In their pursuit of both national and homeland security as well as the creation of new markets, the state and corporations are engaging the free-flowing horizontal […]

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wiretapping – at&t’s new marketing strategy

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on August 11, 2008 at 5:02 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but what with article deadlines, ecycolpedia entries, the NUDA Summer School, and Euro-SSIG, I’m just now getting around to it. Back in June, at&t briefly flirted with the idea of using the scandal surrounding their illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens’ domestic and international communications […]

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