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Corporate Greed and the Destabilization of Society

2008-09-23 18:24:22 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...society For example, the Average Joe Investor does not care about best order execution or smart order routing, this is for the big boys. As we all know, saving a few pennies or dollars per transaction to Average Joe Investor does nothing for them when their retirement nest egg is lost due to corporate greed and negligence. The folks who...
 
Tags: society, greed, safe money, money, money market funds, democratic society, average joe investor, free society, joe
 
 
 
 
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David Brin Rebuts Schneier In Defense of a Transparent Society

2008-03-12 01:00:00 by David Brin in Wired Security
 
Wired.com columnist and security expert Bruce Schneier argues that a world without secrets would only give more power to the powerful. Award-winning science fiction author David Brin defends his thesis that a "transparent society" is the best way to even the odds
 
Tags: transparent society, thesis, secrets, columnist, world, power, powerful, odds, wired
 
 
 
 
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EPTS: An Event Processing Marketing Society (EPMS)

2008-08-13 08:02:57 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...society; however I will not yield, because I do not need to resort to sarcasm, fallacy and ad hominums ; the facts obviously supportmy view. For proof that Opher has a narrow view of event processing, go no further than look at the companies he hand-picked forhis EPTS Steering Committee;most startups (or with startup products) in the event...
 
Tags: epts, event, vendors onthe epts, epts committee, technical societyabout event, forhis epts, epts reinvent, narrow, community
 
 
 
 
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SDL and "End to End Trust"

2008-04-17 00:15:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...society might be able to start a productive dialog about collaborating toward that end. Make no mistake: this is tough stuff. This needs to be an industry-wide, long-term effort, and its about more than just technology. Enabling true End to End Trust will require that we continue to build on technology progress while aligning those...
 
Tags: trust, broader, broader discussion, trust portal, technology, technology progress, broader vision, speech recognition, computer speech recognition
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...societys need for trustworthy computing in a very visible and important application Lets start with the Source Code Review of the Sequoia Voting System . Two examples from the executive summary are interesting Cryptography . Many cryptographic functions are implemented incorrectly, based on weak algorithms with known flaws, or used in an...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...society trusts and respects law enforcement. A society where illegal immigrants are afraid to talk to police because of fear of deportation is a society where fewer people come forward to report crimes, aid police investigations, and testify as witnesses And finally, denying driver's licenses to illegal immigrants will not protect us from...
 
Tags: licenses, driver licenses, illegal immigrants, licenses helps, licenses andor, deny licenses, driver, law, respects law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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Mothers, let your sons grow up to be hedge fund managers

2008-04-16 09:07:25 by HASH0x8b53ca0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...society? When I see companies that won't spend a couple of dollars to make sure that your confidential information remains confidential and than see these kind of numbers, what does this society value But who am I to rain on the parade of these Titans of Wall Street. I am going to go home and start working on my sons to think about thier...
 
Tags: billion dollars, billion, dollars, wall street, hedge fund managers, million dollars, hedge fund business, kids, smarter kids
 
 
 
 
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Risk and Culture

2008-05-21 05:19:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the Second National Risk and Culture Study presents empirical evidence of the effect of this dynamic in generating conflict about global warming, school shootings, domestic terrorism, nanotechnology, and the mandatory vaccination of school-age girls...
 
Tags: risk, values, cultural values, hold hierarchical, hold, egalitarian values, hold individualist values, diverse values, national risk
 
 
 
 
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It Changed My Life: My Review of "Geekonomics"

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2008-06-05 17:53:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...society. And, for my extra-paranoid readers: "... and how it might end that very society Until " Geekonomics This book might not reveal any secrets about how software works to an IT professional (it will reveal how law works though!), but it will explain why bad software is everywhere, why we are stuck with it, why it will not improve by...
 
Tags: software, software manufactures, typical software, software development, insecure, insecure software, bad software, bad, open-source software
 
 
 
 
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Where You At? UK Big Bro Knows

2008-06-08 13:55:53 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest