• 23 Feb 2010

    P2P risks, all over again

    It's sad when our government has to warn businesses about their own P2P network security flaws.I wrote about the security considerations with P2P applications seemingly a lifetime ago (2003) for TechTarget in a piece titled Are P2P applications worth the risk? Around this same time I served as a P2P expert on a panel discussion at American Intellectual Property Law Association's conference in Atlanta where we discussed these same issues.Nothing ...

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  • 15 Dec 2008

    A new channel for data leakage/breaches?

    I just had a flashforward moment a minute ago. I was dragging and dropping a file on my Windows desktop and it "landed" on the Skype window I had open. It didn't do anything because I caught it in time but I thought: Oh no! What if I accidentally transmitted a file to someone in my phonebook? Perhaps someone that didn't need to see that file.But then I thought - ...

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