June 20, 2013
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When Kim Dotcom went on a rant yesterday about how Netherlands-based Web-hosting company LeaseWeb had deleted petabytes of former MegaUpload “customer’s pictures, backups, personal and business property,” LeaseWeb had nothing to say. Now they do. LeaseWeb explains why it deleted Kim … Continue reading
June 19, 2013
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In late 2011, Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload file-sharing site was one of the top 100 Websites in the world. Then, the FBI, working in concert with New Zealand police, seized the site and all the user files within its servers. Dotcom’s … Continue reading
June 18, 2013
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Thomas Penfield Jackson has died. The former U.S. District court judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly that should be broken up into two companies. This part of his decision was over-turned, but what might have happened had … Continue reading
June 10, 2013
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If you buy cloud services without double-checking exactly what you’re getting and without a real service-level agreement (SLA) you might as well be buying a pig in a poke — in other words, you really won’t know what you’re buying … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
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Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn’t know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela “PJ” Jones and her … Continue reading
May 15, 2013
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Tragically, Aaron Swartz, hounded by an apparently over-zealous prosecutor, committed suicide in early 2013. His just-unveiled major open-source privacy project, DeadDrop, lives on in a citizen and press protection program, The New Yorker’s Strongbox. Strongbox is the first use of … Continue reading