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Show of 9-14-2002

  • Tech Talk Guest: Ms. Nuala O’Connor Kelly
    • Chief Counsel for Technology, Department of Commerce
    • First woman to hold position of Chief Counsel for Technology
    • Works with Assistant Secretary Bruce Melman, a recent Tech Talk Guest
    • Prior to Commerce
      • Vice President for Data Protection and Privacy, DoubleClick
      • Help found DoubleClick?s first data protection department
  • National Homeland Security Expo
    • September 18 and 19, 2002 in the DC Armory
    • Will showcase cutting-edge security products to help law enforcement, military, and the private sector meet homeland security needs.
    • Small, medium, and large high-tech companies form across the nation will participate
    • Expo will feature remarks by Commerce Secretary Evans and Govenor Tom Ridge
    • Expo is hosted by Department of Commerce?s Technology Administration in cooperation with the Office of Homeland Security
    • Open to the public without charge
  • September 11 E-Mail Worm Fizzles
    • It has been dubbed the Chet Worm
      • Subject: All People
      • Message: New evidence of September 11. America and England have begun bombardment of Iraq.
      • Attachment: 11September.exe
      • Source Address: main@world.com
    • Mass mailer user Outlook or Outlook Express
    • Shoddy programming has prevented widespread distribution
  • Service Pack 1 Released for WindowsXP
    • Free download (my download was 50M)
    • $9.95 CD
    • Set Program Access and Defaults to Implement Anti-trust changes
    • Security fixes, USB 2.0 integral support, but not Bluetooth,
  • Microsoft Word and Outlook Vulnerabilties
    • Fields embedded in Word document such as ?Include Text? can be used to retrieve data from hard drive
      • Requires exact file name and location
      • Word document then imports data into the document.
      • When the document is returned it includes the new data
    • Outlook Express message fragmentation can be used to penetrate e-mail virus scanners.
      • Outlook Express is meeting standards
      • The Virus scanners are at fault
  • Tech Talk Trivia of the Week
  • First Smiley Ever Posted
      Scott E. Fahlman first suggested the smiley in a memo data September 19, 1982

    • Found by researchers Mike Jones at Carnegie Mellon University
    • A smiley is a Colon ? Dash ? Close Parentheses.
    • It looks like a smiling face sideways.
  • US Will Renew ICANN?s Authority
    • Nancy Victor announced anticipated extension this week
    • Victory is head of National Telecommunications and Information Administration
    • ICANN?s internal administration has been criticized recently for a lack of openness
    • ICANN administraters the Internet Domain Name System
  • China Lifts Block on Google Searches
    • Last week China blocked Google
    • It directed all traffic to a China-friendly search tool.
    • Mirror site (Elgoog) cropped up to give Chinese access.
    • It worked?.and China reversed it position
  • Enron to Auction IT Gear
    • Dovebid conduct auction
    • Auction to be held September 25 and 26, 2002,? Houston, Texas
    • Auction will be webcast
  • Fujitsu to replace 300,000 Hard Drive
    • 2-3% of all 10 million hard drives made between Sept 2001 and 2002 to be replaced
    • Fault lies with semiconductors used in the HDDs.? HDD fail in less than 2 months
    • Mostly found in NEC, IBM, and Fujitsu-Seimens PCs
    • Replace cost $83 million.
  • War Flying (Continued)
    • Tech Talk received an email from the San Diego Warflyer, Joe Blatz
    • Joe wanted to clarify some Tech Talk comments from last week’s show. He, and his associated at San Diego Wireless, make certain not to associate with or log onto any discovered networks. He noted that such activity would be illegal. Joe does not load the TCP/IP protocol stack in his laptop to make certain that he does not accidently enter a discovered network.
    • He recommended these additional links for our listeners
  • Other Wireless News
  • Trusted Computing Platform Alliance seeks to protect more than data
    • Group led by Microsoft
    • May apply to protecting digital copy rights
    • Would place MS software as the glue the binds together a copy protection system
    • MS would get royalties from both ends
    • Critics are up in arms at this power play. Would shift balance of power from individual to corporations.
  • Grid Computer Gaining in Popularity
    • Keep an eye on this technology
    • PC Magazine Recently Rated four Grid Systems
      • Entropia DC Grid
      • Globus Toolkit 2.0
      • Sun One Grid Engine
      • United Devices Metaprocessor Platform 3.0
      • Entropia received the highest rating
  • Levi?s Trousers Protect Testicles
    • Keeping a moble phone in your front pants pocket may pose a risk
    • Levi?s to the rescue with special ?Docker?s? with phone pockets lined with special material
  • Florida election spotlights IT training needs
    • Recent Voting Debaucle was not caused by equipment
    • Things went wrong in Miami-Dade and Broward counties again
    • Janet Reno lost 8,000 votes
    • Staff did not know how to boot systems, resulting in frequent lockups. Help desk was overwhelmed with requests for help.
    • IT Support is getting the blame
  • Stratford News
    • Security Initiative
      • Security Management: CISSP
      • Security Implementation: Cisco and SANS Training Tools
      • Wireless Security
      • Begin with Hacking 101s
    • Masters Degrees
      • Telecommunication Systems
      • Enterprise Business Management
    • Associate Degrees
      • Network Management and Security
      • Database Drive Web Design for E-Business
    • Next Start October 15th
    • Open House at Stratford: October 26th
      • Tech Talk will be live from the School
      • Security, Web Design, e-Business Tutorials