[ngw] Google and Mcafee

[Gregg A. Hinchman]

You know I prefer a different name than Cassandra -if you will.  LOL.  I think more along the lines of Qui-Gon Jin --maybe Yoda -but really Yoda did not see the evil in front of him -yet Qui (assuming you read Star Wars as I have been) had some thought on it.  I like to base my thoughts in the 'Living Force' known as the 'here and now' or reality...with just about a 5 min. glimpse at the future Force.  Because to quote Yoda -"Always in motion the future is".  

People can say what they want, time will tell. But reality is -we will move to cloud only to find that we will move back to self-supported IT in the future much like the PC movement was away from centralized computing and the VM movement is a move back to it.  Frankly I start to wonder if its the Emperor playing 2 sides against the middle for increased revenue....ah...but that's just a bit more Star Wars in reality than we all need.  LOL!!

Oh and that reminds me -US travel adversary for India -New Delhi.  Apparently attacks are 'in the works' and Americans may be the target.  Guess that's better than it happening in Bangalore.  Think about that 'unthinkable' moment in US Tech Support and see where it takes you.

Take Care.
 
Gregg A. Hinchman 
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From: Randy Grein<randygrein at comcast.net>
To:ngw at ngwlist.com
Date: 4/21/2010 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ngw] Google and Mcafee
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.
 
Gregg A. Hinchman 
Consultant
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A Novell Consulting Partner
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"Do not be bound to any doctrine, theory or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means, not absolute truth."  Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk.

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