Thursday, June 29, 2006

With your great skill, can you give us a replacement for Windows instead?

Refer "'Blue Pill' Prototype Creates 100% Undetectable Malware".

We don't care if you hate Microsoft. If you really hate Windows and try to force us not to use it, then we are ready to wait for you to give us a better platform. We use Windows because there is nothing better than it does, not because we love Microsoft or Bill Gates.

Ever since the success of Windows, we never have a day free of such threat. These guys forgot that they were hurting all of us. I do admire that they had that level of skill but I do hope that they could do something good. Perhaps they are lack of the good technique, just like criminals who were clever but only limited to doing bad things.

If they were really so, then all media must not report what they said and let them disappeared from our world. Perhaps it is the media that gave them a way to show off their skill.

As users, we shall soon get tired for fighting a war without end. Moreover, we are the consumers only.

I am certain that media would continue to report such things and these clever troublemakers would continue to threaten us. That is one way that Microsoft should work for, make a Windows that can install itself from a protected source every time we boot.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Sophisticated criminals plus stock shark = financial catastrophe

We have been warned that criminals have equipped with sophisticated techniques. The worst thing is that we already have criminal style stock shark with name like hedge fund etc. which grasped the money of helpless small investors legally.

With the latest information,"Cosmetics company's stock price rises sharply following spam campaign", it seems that either both legal and illegal criminals had started to co-operate or the illegal criminals have adapted the legal technique or the legal criminals started to employ the illegal way.

The law that supposed to protect us is always lagged behind the modern times. With Internet, the gap is greater and it takes a long time to come up with any means to fight against that kind of crime some years ago. Oh, we must remember that law can deal with crimes that happened and not to prevent. That means no protection f0r those who suffered.

One little thing that we might be happy with is that such sophisticated criminals are giving up their guns, so it would be safe for our bodies provided that we would not be mad when our money are gone in a short time.

Well, that means we need to learn how to protect us unless we decide to withdraw from the modern lives.

That is the reason that we have to get the latest information to stay ahead of risks.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

They are in need of a body embedded computer and a brain-installed hard disk.

It may be ridiculous to know that people who supposed to look after privacy and identity protection had been so careless, check: "FTC Laptops Stolen, 110 People at Risk of ID Theft".

We may need to build a computer that embedded in bodies and hard disk installed in the brain to avoid such cases. Remember that a guy had done so for mobile equipment put into his fingers. That is a good idea. Smaller notebook would not help because that will be easier to lose or slip away in any movement.

Of course, we might have lost a mobile, a notebook etc. either stolen or lost due to carelessness. But that was before when personal data had not been used by criminals. Nowadays, we have to take care of such things because we read news about stolen data almost every week for these years.

May be it is because the data is nothing about oneself, so it is not needed to take extra care.

We may need a law to guard against holding other's personal data which is digital asset today.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

A new type of insurance is needed, against the carelessness of Insurance company.

We use to believe that insured is secured and protected us against loss. Now, some of our personal data had been stolen, nearly a million in total. Check: AIG Confirms Customer Data Breach.

Some may wonder why? Well, that means every corporation, big one too, is never care about our personal data. Since personal data had not been a treasure before, so we had been peaceful for years. Now, with the modernization of criminals, as mentioned, it is a best way to rob without a gun.

Can we be safe? No, if we are still not yet hurt, it is because we are lucky or not rich enough to attract the criminals.

Perhaps we can say, if these corporations cannot protect our personal data, they might care about our money only, never our protection. So why should we rely on their services?

More and more cases also tell us that such big corporations have no practical management at all. Perhaps their CEOs were too busy to get the highest options and benefit, if not cooking their books. Check: Altera to restate 10 years of earnings and may worry whether such problem would exist in other corporations too.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Next thing to come, a trophy for the best hacker.

We may be astonished to see, "UK's first computer hacking degree launched". Of course, it is said that the training is for security instead.

In fact, I have been told that there were training in college for hacking a long time ago. Just like re-engineering, such topics are quite challenging for professors.

There is no way to guarantee the behavior of graduates; especially they may turn to hackers after a couple years.

Without such academic involvement, we already have to work daily to keep safe. I believe that our trouble may not get worse if we continue to maintain a good defense.

Let every one knows more about hacking may not be a bad thing. At least, more people will aware of such danger. Hacking may not be the ultimate killer; carelessness about others' data should be more damaging than any other things.