A Series of Tubes #103: Ending 2009 with Cisco on security, Stil on the NBN and the filter
December 22nd, 2009And so we approach the end of the year, and what a year it’s been! Tubes welcomes its new sponsor, Virtual Offis, and will get the logo added to the site early in the new year.
This week, in its last episode for 2009, A Series of Tubes returns to some of its most common themes of the year: security, the NBN and filtering.
Under the security heading, we speak with Glenn Welby, IronPort manager for A/NZ for Cicso, about that vendors 2009 Security Report. In particular, Cisco believes that the rise of social media as a security threat signals that it’s time to pay more attention to the human aspects of security. Or, as Tubes might put it, security is a “PICNIC” – Problem In Computer, Not In Chair.
And to end the year, Tubes talks about the NBN with Stilgherrian, while on the perennial subject of filtering, we ask what those who advocate Internet freedoms can do to turn it into a question that “Joe Sixpack” cares about?
