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New Global Refurbishment Programs

2008-06-16 19:13:58 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...toxic substances handled safely Neat, this sounds like a good alternative and supplement to programs like the OLPC. There is a lot of toxic waste out there, but a lot of computers that we get rid of because theyre no longer good enough for our datacenters can still be useful to others, especially in the third world
 
Tags: computers, components, valuable components, local equivalent, ram chips, ars technica, lot, world, programs
 
 
 
 
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Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale

2008-02-15 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale "comedic gold
 
Tags: space security experts, toxic gas cloud, spy satellite, comedic gold, rationale, pentagon, threat
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Unveils Rogue Spy Sat Shootdown Plan

2008-02-14 19:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
In the next week or so, the U.S. military is going to try to take out a malfunctioning spy satellite before it crashes to Earth -- and maybe releases a toxic gas in the process
 
Tags: spy satellite, toxic gas, military, week, process, earth, releases, crashes
 
 
 
 
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Teen bomb maker stopped in his tracks in South Carolina.

2008-04-25 02:58:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...toxic levels of violence every day. Perhaps we can do a better job at home and help to nip this evil trend in the bud before our classrooms begin to resemble battlefields Visit Sexton Executive Security at www.sextonsecurity.com
 
Tags: family home, home, law enforcement officers, schools, threat assessment workshop, schools safe, alert guidance counsellors, security precautions, copy cat
 
 
 
 
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Its about the kids, stupid

2008-05-08 15:52:44 by HASH0x8b658bc in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...toxic to that crowd. But I really think Matt is just plain twisted about this and about what OLPC is really about. Here is what Matt has to say, " OLPC is rather about liberating developing nations from their vassal status that continually keeps them at the mercy of the pricing and licensing of Microsoft and other proprietary vendors. " No...
 
Tags: olpc, olpc laptop project, kids, matt, ultimately matt, olpc laptops, matt waxes poetic, laptops, olpc project
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...toxic; we give up control of ourselves Bruce Schneier is Chief Security Technology Officer of BT, and author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...toxic; we give up control of ourselves This essay originally appeared on Wired.com
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Contaminated Squids

2008-06-20 16:56:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
We're contaminating the squid : The toxic chemicals that Vecchione and colleagues from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science found are a rogues gallery of scary initials: PCBs, TBTs, BDEs, and DDT among them. Scientists classify all of them as POPs, or persistent
 
Tags: toxic chemicals, rogues gallery, virginia institute, squid, marine science, scary initials, ddt, tbts, pops
 
 
 
 
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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...toxic subprime loans It was a great Ponzi scheme one that kept working as long as housing prices were going up; the recipients of subprime loans could always flip that house to the next buyer. Everyone made money. As Chuck Prince of Citigroup famously put it during a July, 2007 interview : So long as the music is playing, youve got to keep...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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Is that keyboard toxic?

2008-09-29 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Nanotechnology is raising questions about safety
 
Tags: nanotechnology, questions, safety