Archive for September, 2008
A Series of Tubes #65 — DNS security crawls on
September 25th, 2008You may have noticed: since the so-called “Kaminsky bug”, the issue of DNS security has gone strangely silent – except for the US Government’s announcement that its .gov domains will implement DNSSec. Tubes interviews APNIC’s Geoff Houston to ask why things are moving so slowly.
And in this week’s sponsor interview, Tubes talks Power-Over-Ethernet with ProCurve’s [...]
A Series of Tubes #64 — The Web 2.0 Software-as-Service T&C Trap
September 18th, 2008When Google copied the wrong clauses into its Chrome user agreement, the blogsphere went into a temporary frenzy – and when the mistake was corrected, things went quiet again.
But the Chrome issue highlights a more serious long-term consideration: what are the terms and conditions traps for companies looking at signing on for Software-as-a-Service? Are companies [...]
A Series of Tubes #63 — Networks as foreign aid
September 4th, 2008George McLaughlin learned about research networks the best way possible: inside AARNET for much of the 1990s. Since then, he’s taken his experience to the developing world. Before the end of this year, he’s due to start work on TEIN3, a project to deliver next-generation networking to an even bigger footprint. Richard Chirgwin talks to [...]