It’s a good thing that the EFF has waded into the battle against Carrier IQ – the weaselly company that makes even Smeagle of LOTR fame seem upright and forthcoming.
You can catch up on carriergate here, or if you are averse to long passages of reading you can also look at a summary here: Schneier on Security… and then after all that you too can ponder on how relatively calm the people with the most to lose are being.
Update: watch vid of US Senator Al Franken quizzing an FBI pointy-haired about its use of CarrierIQ data. The answer is just… well, preciousssss. Vid after the jump: Continue reading
“…that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion…”
I don’t have an iphone. I do however (at the time of writing) have the latest ipod touch and I had gotten used to it before I decided to buy an android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2).
This topic has kept cropping up at me over the last few weeks, so… well, that’s a sign isn’t it? Plus, I can’t think of a better way to end my blogging drought. In what follows, I am going to reduce the entire, multi-faceted IT industry to a specific phase in the systems development life-cycle: the development phase. Because I think software development / coding is the activity which really pushes this issue…
…and getting the snot kicked out of it while its candy gets stolen. But hey, it all builds character, right?
Business people have problems. The other thing they have is existing infrastructure: things, people, technologies, systems, teams, policies and so much more. And infrastructure, being part of the environment, informs not just what unfolds within that environment but how people think about what can unfold within that same environment.
In a short series of 3 nibble-sized posts, I’m going write about some of the things I’m learning about a rapidly expanding field: Enterprise intranets – specifically the inclusion of social media platforms with the attendant folksonomies and enterprise search functionality.
Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and… well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing: