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Stand up laptop thief.

Laptop theft is a serious problem. The guy in this video may come across as being over the top, sanctimonious, threatening, obsessive and well just plain scary. If every laptop theft victim had his attitude it is likely that the incidence of stolen laptops would drop quite significantly. I wouldn’t like to be the target in the class.

The speakers failures however would appear to be in the areas of encryption and data backup. If these two issues were addressed correctly his data would not get in the wrong hands and would be available to him.

Conclusion?

Having the [...] Continue Reading…

Data loss is only one component of data breach.

In years gone by, the main (even sole) concern which business had regarding data was the direct consequences to themselves of losing data. The questions they asked themselves centred around an inward looking theme.

What data do we need to retain to ensure survival?
How will data loss affect us?
How long will it take us to get backup and running should we lose data which is backed up?
Will we be able to get back up and running if we lose data which is not backed up?

These are all valid questions but every one [...] Continue Reading…

Irish SEO expert competition winner.

Congratulations to Paul Savage of blackdog.ie who won the highly coveted Geansai Gorm Irish SEO expert competition. Well done also to the organiser of this great event, Damien Mulley fame. The rules of the competitionproved at times too strict leaving some entrants disqualified. There are no sour grapes however as Paul’s Entry was not just the top placed viable entry but indeed the top placed entry of any type. The time span this competition ran over, allowed for some fun and games with some entrants sailing a bit too close to the wind. There were instances of entrants being banned by Google. One [...] Continue Reading…

Backupanytime content being stolen.

I have “Backupanytime” set up as a Google alert term so I receive notifications about mention of Backupanytime on the web. Being a small business, many of these relate to content on our own site and I am familiar with them before Google alerts me. Some of them relate to our blog being added to someones blogroll (and this is appreciated) while others are as a consequence of a blog post somewhere by us or about us.

I received one today of a totally different type. I recognised the content. Indeed I wrote it. The location was [...] Continue Reading…

3 Ireland win national broadband contract.

Three.ie or simply “3″ have won the government contract to provide broadband which will connect the unconnected in Ireland. This is one part of the national broadband scheme. The department of communications reckon that circa 10% of Ireland is outside of any broadband coverage. This does not address however much of the remaining 90% which can avail of broadband of low speed, high contention and very high cost.

The system to be used by “3″ is their own HSDPA 3G solution. There are critics (as with all systems) but my experience of this system (I [...] Continue Reading…