The SoapVox

The Mercury News (via Dan Gillmor’s blog) informs that Patricia Dunn, aka The Wicked Witch of the Board, has resigned from the board of directors (not only her position as chairperson) effective immediately.
All I can say about it is…IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!
According to the Mercury, the announcement was made during the news conference held today [...]

First of all, sorry for the long silence…bronchitis tends to keep me away from the computer…but now I’m better, so I should be back to normal :)
Ok, it seems like HP is a deepest, darkest and dirtiest cesspool than I ever managed to think it was. There’s tons of posts and articles in the last [...]

I totally forgot this…on the 13th of September of 1956, the first hard disk drive was introduced. I forgot (and I’m guessing so did slashdot, because the story just showed up :) They point to this story in Yahoo! which has good points about the history of our beloved hard disks without which we’d be [...]

Ok, the Financial Times (found through Groklaw), reveals that I was wrong and HP is even more f’ed up than I thought.
I told Rich G. in a comment in another of my posts that HP had only(??!!) directed the investigation against board members, journalists and the family of one journalist…Financial Times says I was [...]

Ok, it seems like Groklaw’s RSS feed is broken today [edit: no, it wasn't Groklaw's fault, it was my RSS reader that was being dumb], for some reason…I didn’t see any updates, and decided to check, and found…four new articles about HP.
The first one is about The Wicked Chairwoman of the board, Patricia Dunn, who [...]

Well, I had held off writing this post because I expected The Wicked Chairwoman, aka, Patricia C. Dunn to be fired yesterday or today…but instead of firing her ass, HP annonced that she’ll “step down in January”…in January??? Come on! And to make things even *more* fun, she’s just stepping down…that is, she will still [...]

Everybody has been talking about the HP “internal investigation”, which the Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer said violates two statutes, one protecting data and the other protecting privacy…and they will be prosecuted by his office.
Said illegal actions can be prosecuted as misdemeanors, which carry a maximum of one year in jail, or as a [...]

Handy points in his blog to this post by Seth Godin about The end of the job interview, and it’s a very interesting post, that happens to match with a few thoughts I’ve had over time about the subject…that makes Godin smart, right? :)
Seth mentions the fact that job interviews are a waste of time, [...]

I just found this one in Security Fix, and it says quite a lot of interesting things about how Data Breaches have been happening for the last year-and-a-bit. It’s worth a read. Study Analyzes 16 Months of Data Breaches.
This study, together with my previous post, should tell us that we need to find the right [...]

If you have been reading the news and watching TV, you’ve probably come to realize that the governments of the world are becoming more and more intrusive as time goes by. The terrorist threat has become the ultimate excuse for the growth of incredible amounts of “security” in every aspect of our lives, from the [...]