[ngw] Google and Mcafee

[Randy Grein]

Greg, you echo my thoughts exactly. Which unfortunately means you are  
a Cassandra and will be ignored as irrelevant, foolish and 'lacking in  
understanding of business matters'. That you're spot on seems to have  
no bearing....
Randy Grein

On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Gregg A. Hinchman wrote:

> I thought these were both interesting.
>
> First -Google and its continue non-protection of privacy.
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7612988/Google-not-interested-in-privacy.html
>
> My opinion:
> I am not a fan of the 'cloud' mentality because no one can protect a  
> companies -let alone a persons data as well as the individual person  
> or corporation -because they have 'skin' in the game.  And then  
> there is the 'connection' issue.  When an organization jumps on the  
> path to 'cloud' all data so they can eliminate IT -or much of it-  
> they forget that in an outage of the Internet -they have lost all  
> communication both to the outside world and between their own  
> employees.  Now I know my opinion will sound like its old fashion  
> but let me ask -have we ever had internet outages? Or, complete air  
> traffic outages?  Thinking the unthinkable seems to be what takes  
> place more often then not these days.  Consider back a few years  
> when the Internet DNS servers had a 'hack' built into them that  
> would have easily exposed us all. Or now - http://news.techworld.com/security/3218219/domain-registrars-lagging-behind-over-dnssec-security/?olo=rss 
>  .
>
> Second -Mcafee -can you say 'Ooops!'
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_mcafee_antivirus_flaw 
>  .
>
> Limited Opinion here: You need AV but yet a company should do better  
> testing before releasing.  You cannot tell me this could not have  
> been caught in the lab long before release.
>
> Just two interesting events.
>
>
> Take Care.
>
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