Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Schneier on Security: Public Disclosure of Personal Data Loss

Schneier on Security: Public Disclosure of Personal Data Loss:
"It might seem that there has been an epidemic of personal-data losses recently, but that's an illusion. What we're seeing are the effects of a California law that requires companies to disclose losses of thefts of personal data. It's always been happening, only now companies have to go public with it."


I was wondering why all this stuff was in the news, and why the journalists were making big news out of it!

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...