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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:04 PM

While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc

I'm always suspicious of people talking down security vulnerabilities, but I don't like to see them over-hyped  either; so I'm going down the former path. You are allowed to be skeptical. A couple of people have mailed me this morning about this
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:32 PM

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards' " (as a favourite quote has it) but you must
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:36 AM

Vista SP1 to drop "Reduced functionality mode"

I guess I'm not the only person in Microsoft who thought that stopping software working when it seemed to be pirated was a good idea. To be honest, I still do. However, the process has to be infallible. If it's 99.9% correct and you sell 100 Million copies
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:41 AM

Windows Activation (Server 2008 style)

One of the things we've done with Windows over the years is to try to make life a bit harder for people who pirate it. This isn't just about protecting Microsoft's revenue (or even keeping that revenue out of the hands of criminals) but investigations
Posted by jamesone | 9 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:30 PM

Ooops. I gave out some duff information about limiting logons

As Eileen has already said our team spent last week at the BETT show . My first "proper" IT job after leaving university was working for RM who are the biggest supplier of IT to education and I did a couple of BETT shows when I worked for them; it's the
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Monday, October 30, 2006 1:51 PM

Sony rookit on 1/4 million PCs, MSRT removes a malware somewhere every 3 seconds and other statistics.

I've been reading a paper about the Malicious-Software Removal Tool (MSRT, and I hyphenate it to prevent it being read as the Malicious software-removal tool), it's entitled, MSRT progress made, trends observed. If your interested in what the tool does,
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
 
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