• The Importance of Application Security

    I think I told the story thousands of time and everybody knows it but I will do it the 1001 st time now . When I joined Microsoft and became what is the Chief Security Advisor for Switzerland today, we had an airlift for Windows Server 2003. The Product...
  • The Future of Cybercrime

    If you do not know this blog, it is definitely worth looking at it from time to time: Paleo-Future . There I found a prediction on cybercrime dated 1981: It describes the impact of computers in the “future” – say today. If you click on the picture, you...
  • Do We Really Want Privacy?

    I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog . Fairly often it is thought provoking… He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location . He was one (probably of the...
  • Am I Too Paranoid?

    Sometimes I wonder whether I am too paranoid. I just got a call, which went like that: Caller: “ Hello, we are doing a health insurance survey and have just three questions for you, would you mind to join in? Just 20 seconds. We do it for Health Insurance...
  • The Risk of Blogging

    Steve Ballmer was once asked by a journalist whether and why he allows blogging by Microsoft employees, without any approval process. His answer was that he lets Microsoft employees talk to customers without approval process as well (at least that’s the...