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We released a new widget for our product that runs directly within a company's website, and allows their prospective customers to request a fully functional server image directly f…

Cloud seems to be the ultimate Rorschach Test, both in the real world and the IT world. (From http://blog.labslice.com/2010/09/wispy-cloud.html ).

Lab environments are places were you can play with machines -- eg. customer POC, product evaluation, training environments etc. The objective is to move those lab environments to t…

We have a startup that allows the sharing of machines hosted in the cloud. It can allow some cool stuff, like sharing of virtual POCs and evaluations of enterprise software -- ie. …

We have a startup that allows the sharing of machines hosted in the cloud. It can allow some cool stuff, like sharing of virtual POCs and evaluations of enterprise software -- ie. …

I am quite certain that the EMV chip, which is the chip on your card, must authenticate the POS machines it talks to. The authentication is done using public key cryptography. So i…

> my email address, is shared with a famous (in a bad way) world leader Kim Jong Il? Brute forcing gmail is not really feasible, especially not if you have a decent password in pla…

I may be opening myself up to attack, but I find that the best programmers around are the ones who started at the lowest levels and then progressed up the abstraction levels. It's …

It's quite possible that the Chinese government hacked your iphone so that they can send out spam for fake Rolexes. But in most likelihood you have a keylogger or browser based pas…

A quick primer to highlight the difference between the big cloud vendors -- Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

"... that have not generated more than $10 million USD (approximately 7,584,950 EUR) in gross annual revenues and no more than $10 million USD (approximately 7,584,950 EUR) in outs…

My business (LabSlice) was just announced as a semi-finalist. I didn't even realize it was publicly announced until I clicked this link in the poster's blog: http://aws.typepad.com…

And a really good security guy may also know of Shibboleth as an implementation of identify federation / cross-domain SSO. ;-)

I completely disagree. A person who is really passionate about IT security will know about cryptography because they are interested in how security works, not because it's a requir…

I've just spent several days improving the startup time of my ASP.NET based business. Some things to note: * Install both the 'Google PageSpeed' and 'YSlow' plugins for Firefox. Th…

It's very hard to say. Ten years ago I wrote an app in C++ and thought it's the greatest language around. It's fast, close to the OS and rather interesting to work with (as opposed…