All I Want For Christmas

All I Want For Christmas
Mark Rasch, 2006-12-18

Mark Rasch takes a step back and offers his holiday and New Year's wish list of all things security - items that should exist, be made available and be easy to use for everyone over the coming year.

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-18
Tom S

Nice wish list Mark, the sad thing is the pony is probably the most realistic item on the list (even including the Wii). Merry Christmas....

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-19
That Guy Again...

But what I REALLY, REALLY want for christmas is a totally unpredictable random number generator! And not on an elementary level!...

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All I Want For Christmas is Better Design 2006-12-20
Gordon Fecyk

However, I'll settle for the article Rasch wrote. Thanks so much (no really, thanks so much!) for avoiding the usual 'wish lists' I see, including, 'a secure Microsoft operating system.' And including things that, no really, we could use....

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-21
Anonymous

#3 - Absolutely not. And not even a good idea. Once a document has left your control, it's available to anyone, even if not electronic (Xerox?). If they can see it, they can copy it (screen scrapers? Using a camera to take a picture of the screen? Intercepting the video display signal?)

And ...

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-21
Andy

Mark,

your wishlist is almost reality today. But public knowledge about these technologies is very limited today.

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) ( http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org ) has been working on this for a few years now. The Army, Air Force and shortly the entire DoD will begin...

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-27
Anonymous

Excellent article: Contemporary, thoughtful, and very well-written - a worthwhile read. That last bit in #5, though, about wanting it "... 100% secure", tends to take the wind out of everything....

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All I Want For Christmas 2006-12-29
Gary Lust

I'm a Net Admin at a law firm, and (3) sounds like a typical attorney request.....needing their music and videos on corporate devices - please (roll eyes).

A solution for (2) already exists - Worldox DMS.

Nice article Mark, I always enjoy reading them. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!...

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All I Want For Christmas 2007-01-01
Anonymous

>I just want to send secure e-mail.
Then don't use SMTP, oh but whats that I hear you saying? Everybody in the world uses SMTP for email and have spend billions in SMTP infrastructure....yeah that is true

Until they make a new stored messaging protocol for email, you'll never get your wish. Busi...

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