Archive for the ‘Safety & Security’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
One of the industry rags I like to read is eWeek. It's just the right size for casual consumption between meetings or, in my case, while waiting for the flight attendents to announce that I can take out my laptop. The October 22 issue has an article entitled "5 Steps ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Fellow ADE Rae Niles sent me a link to a short, online anti-cyberbullying video entitled "Let's Fight It Together." It's nicely done and worth a look.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
We got our first family computer on Tuesday, and my boys are pretty excited. I've got a couple laptops, but they're for work and I don't let the kids use them. Now, though, we're ready to roll. I've downloaded Scratch, Google Earth, and Sketchup, and I'm looking forward to working ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Eben Moglen is a law professor at Columbia and Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. He is well-known in the free software world for his important work on the next generation of the GPL software license, the GPLv3.
Professor Moglen gave a talk last April at the MySQL Conference, ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
I've posted before about how teenagers may be tempted to share a little too openly on social networking sites like MySpace. Today's St. Paul Pioneer Press provides a good example in an article headlined Teen in fatal crash shuns cops in favor of MySpace. The 18-year-old woman being investigated made ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
The ed tech blogosphere is buzzing about this so I feel compelled to add my $0.02.
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R. of PA) has introduced legislation called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). I saw the news first in an article at News.com entitled Congress targets social network sites. (You'll find the ...
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
I posted recently about using HotSpotVPN to secure my wireless Internet connection while traveling. Once I had the VPN configured I started up Ethernal to see if my traffic really was encrypted. I was disappointed to find that some of my network traffic, including my .Mac email password, was still ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
I'm in Rochester, MN for a couple days this week working as a mentor at an ISTE Institute. After listening to the latest Security Now! podcast with Steve Gibson where he talked about VPNs, I decided that I should probably get my act together and get set up with a ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Here's Part II of my recent conversation with Professor Scott McLeod from the University of Minnesota. I had quite a bit of feedback on Part I of our conversation on data-drive decision making so I hope you will enjoy this talk about legal and ethical issues facing educational technology leaders. ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
John Batelle points to a couple pages at SearchEngineWatch called "Playing with Kids' Search Engines" and "Kids Search Engines" that have some handy information about how to enable search filtering on all of the major Internet search engines. You'll also find some links to kid-specific search tools. Are these sites ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
Bruce Schneier blogged today about a recent CNN story describing how Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians were able to convince 35 out of 100 IRS employees to divulge their network login and password. This is yet another data point that points to employees as the primary weak link ...
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Sunday, March 6th, 2005
I am participating in (and blogging during) an online presentation from Steve Miller and Chris Seiberling who are describing a project from CoSN called "Cyber Security For The Digital District." The Web site has some really interesting resources for technology leaders who are trying to move their organizations forward with ...
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