• Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations

    I do not want to comment this but it is a fairly interesting article on Snowden's Revelations, the consequences and the legal frameworks. Definitely worth spending the time: Making Sense from Snowden: What's Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations...
  • Careful, when Microsoft Support is calling

    I guess you are aware of the phone scams, when Microsoft support is calling you to tell you that you have an issue on your computer, which needs to be fixed. A Norwegian team was actually able to film that. The whole conversation with the "supporter"...
  • Windows XP: The world after April 8, 2014

    To be clear upfront: After support for Windows XP will end, the world will still exist – at least I hope. However, over the course of the last few months I read numerous articles with speculations, what is going to happen, once we stop support of Windows...
  • Unique in the Crowd – False sense of Privacy

    This morning, I was reading a very interesting article called Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility . This is the abstract: We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human...
  • Targeted Attacks – a Video Series

    Trustworthy Computing in partnership with Microsoft IT, Microsoft Consulting and the product groups just released a series of videos on targeted attacked and how to defend. I would definitely urge you to listen to them and make sure you implement the...