• Ethisphere Institute: Microsoft amongst the world’s most ethical companies

    Forbes posted: The World's Most Ethical Companies . I quote: The Ethisphere Institute, a New York City think tank, has just announced its fifth annual list of the World's Most Ethical Companies. The selection, open to every company in every industry around...
  • IE6 Countdown–Migrate to IE8 (or IE9)

    10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. We all know that Internet Explorer 6 is outdated and that you should move away...
  • Is Remote-Application-Removal Acceptable?

    I just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace ( Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update ). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data. However...
  • Mutual Authentication in Real Life–Launching a Nuclear Missile…

    A few years ago, I wanted to run an exercise with our incident response team in Switzerland. A customer, the government and me came together to develop the goals and the scenario. One of the key question we tried to answer together with the university...
  • Internet Surprisingly Stable in Japan

    My manager was on the Tokyo airport, when the earthquake started. We had a chat yesterday about this – he is back home in the meantime – and he told me that he was very surprised that, while the phone network broke Internet still worked and he was able...