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  from Tony Bradley, CISSP, your Editor and Guide
After a couple of weeks away at a technology-challenged cabin in northern Michigan I am back and ready to roll. I posted a few hasty blog entries and a quick review of Paul Graham's book Hackers and Painters to get things going. Come back often because I have some catching up to do and there will be a whole slew of new content over the next week or two. Also remember to check back on Tuesday for news of the August Microsoft Security Bulletins.
 
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Book Review: Hackers and Painters
Hackers and Painters is a collection of essays by Paul Graham, co-founder of Viaweb. The topics of the essays bounce around a bit and you may not always agree with Graham's opinions...read more

 
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Windows XP SP2 Coming Soon!
A while ago I wrote a preview of Windows XP Service Pack 2 based on the beta and release candidate versions. The official release was postponed but it is coming soon. Microsoft has released the final version to its MSDN subscribers so that developers can begin to test their applications. Some of the security features in SP2...read more

 
Big Brother Gains New Powers To Watch Over You
Last Wednesday United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Justice Department won a battle to expand their spying capabilities granted under the 1994 CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act). CALEA originally applied only to telephone communications, but law enforcement agencies petitioned the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to expand...read more

 
 
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