rivercrow on March 5th, 2007

I’ve been thinking about ethics as part of evaluating my values system, particularly the ethical standards I have accepted as part of my professional life. Most technical certifications do not have ethics statements attached to them. Security certifications do. The first one I signed was the ISC(2) Ethics Standard. The second is the CISA code [...]

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rivercrow on February 9th, 2007

ComputerWorld has an article about a coroner in Pennsylvania who has been charged with disclosing his log-on credentials to local reporters. A Pennsylvania coroner has been charged with giving illegal access to a county 911 computer system to local newspaper reporters who then allegedly used his username and password to access a confidential law enforcement [...]

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rivercrow on February 7th, 2007

If you’ve been paying attention to discussions about insider threats, this is old news. For the rest of you–you who aren’t concerned with this kind of thing–this is actually startling news.

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rivercrow on January 28th, 2007

The launch of the new place suffered from bad timing. I ended up taking meds for seasonal allergies–and slept all day Saturday. Once I woke up, I had laundry and work to do. We left early Sunday morning to go to a butterfly house 2.5 hours away. The photography club had arranged for us to [...]

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rivercrow on January 16th, 2007

I keep having discussions about communities…specifically online communities. (If you’re in my immediate circle, you’re tired of hearing this, but don’t let that put you off!) People join together to discuss common interests. Or people fall into crowds and end up accidentally engaged in conversations. It becomes a story of its own (like this one [...]

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