The Swedish parliament just passed a bill that allows the Swedish military to monitor any communications over the net of anyone without a court order. It also allows building up maps of interrelationships using traffic info without any court order. It kind of beats anything the US administration did even at its worst. Except it’s [...]

Medical technology is evolving and one particular area where a lot is happening is in robotic surgery. By moving the surgeon a couple of feet away from the operating table and into a comfy chair, we accomplish a few goals: relaxed surgeon, better view using keyhole techniques, filtering of movements, etc. But it’s only a [...]

Just gave my iMac to my 6 year old daughter, so I got a chance to explore the parental controls in Leopard. Which is why I gave her this machine in the first place.
Now, this stuff is done right all the way.
First, having a limited user account on a Mac is not a problem for [...]

Don’t click on stuff like this, when it pops up in your browser:

The givaway in my case is that I run Mac OSX and that dialog box looks distinctly Windows XP. And ActiveX is kinda the wrong thing to offer to me. But there are other signs, too. Be warned about this, since clicking installs [...]

Place: Windows XP SP2. Event: I’m opening “My Computer”, selecting a mapped folder on my in-house NAS, rightclick one of the backup files I have there, intending to copy it, and I get this popup:

Now, it’s a backup file, not “a page”. I’m not even surfing the net here. How can the file  have “an [...]

In an interview with Computer Sweden, Dan Egerstad explains that he indeed used Tor exit nodes,  five of them. Then he sat back and collected both logon credentials and email contents of all the confused souls who thought that Tor protected them. 

Thinking about the Dan Egerstad affair and reading the comments to the Wired article, it may very well be that he set up a Tor node and simply caught credentials when people routed unsecured POP connections through Tor and exited through his node. This makes a lot of sense. I can very well imagine [...]

It’s high time we got our signatures back. Since IT systems were introduced in healthcare, handwritten signatures have lost all importance, not because they’re superfluous, but because the IT application vendors can’t get a grip on how to implement them. And the weird thing is that all of us, including the authorities, just let this [...]

Just saw mention on a forum of downloading a VMWare appliance ready-
to-run parental control package. It’s definitely a great convenience
to get a pre-installed entire OS with apps and all this way, but what
about malware? It seems we have very little guarantees about how
clean these installs are, and yet I don’t see people worrying much
about it. [...]

We have a lot of vulnerabilities in software, and it doesn’t seem to diminish.
One of the major reasons we have all these vulnerabilities is that every software developer (or organization) needs to develop every darn litte thing itself. IOW, the networking code, the user interaction, the database handling, etc, just to be able to sell [...]