Cody Taylor

alphadogg writes “Last fall, the US government sought comments from industry about how better to secure the Internet by deploying DNSSEC on the root zone. But it hasn’t taken action since then. Internet policy experts anticipate further delays because the Obama Administration hasn’t appointed a Secretary of Commerce yet, the position that oversees Internet addressing issues. Meanwhile, the Internet engineering community is forging ahead with a stopgap to allow DNSSEC deployment without the DNS root zone being signed. Known as a Trust Anchor Repository, the alternative was announced by ICANN last week and has been in testing since October.”

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alphadogg writes “Last fall, the US government sought comments from industry about how better to secure the Internet by deploying DNSSEC on the root zone. But it hasn’t taken action since then. Internet policy experts anticipate further delays because the Obama Administration hasn’t appointed a Secretary of Commerce yet, the position that oversees Internet addressing issues. Meanwhile, the Internet engineering community is forging ahead with a stopgap to allow DNSSEC deployment without the DNS root zone being signed. Known as a Trust Anchor Repository, the alternative was announced by ICANN last week and has been in testing since October.”

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DesScorp writes “The AP reports that the Obama administration has picked up where the Bush administration left off on the missing White House email issue by trying to have a lawsuit dismissed that would have kept investigating whether or not email was still missing. Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President expressed disappointment with the Obama administration’s actions. Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, noted that President Barack Obama on his first full day in office called for greater transparency in government. The Justice Department ‘apparently never got the message’ from Obama, Blanton said.”

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snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder posits a deeper relationship between government and open source than was proposed in last week’s open letter to Obama calling for broader open source adoption: economic stimulus. Since software vendors urged the president to go open source last week, security companies ‘have raised scary points about vulnerabilities in open source,’ suggesting they could step in to help secure an open source switch. Rather than opt for this kind of security through obscurity, Snyder argues in favor of earmarking funds for open source development to instead ensure security through transparency. ‘Once the government expands its use and support of open source, venture money — which is drying up in the current recession — would again start flowing to those small companies, allowing them to hire or rehire some of the tens of thousands of unemployed IT workers,’ he argues.”

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CWmike writes “The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google may be in the cross-hairs of the nation’s next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior, writes Preston Gralla. Last June, Christine A. Varney, President Obama’s nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising. ‘For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem,’ Varney said at a June 19 panel discussion sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, according to a Bloomberg report. The US economy will ‘continually see a problem — potentially with Google’ because it already ‘has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising.’ Varney has yet to be confirmed as antitrust chief, and she said all this before she was nominated. Still, it spells potentially bad news for Google. It may be time for the company to start adding to its legal staff.”

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Cloud, a Pennsylvania case in which the RIAA’s statutory damages theory — seeking from 2,200 to 450,000 times the amount of actual damages — is being tested, the US Department of Justice has just filed papers indicating that it is considering intervening in the case to defend the constitutionality of such awards, and requesting an extension of time (PDF) in which to decide whether such intervention ‘is appropriate.’ This is an early test of whether President Obama will make good on his promises (a) not to allow industry insiders to participate in cases affecting the industry they represented (the 2nd and 3rd highest DOJ officials are RIAA lawyers) and (b) to look out for ordinary citizens rather than big corporations.”

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While U.S. President Barack Obama’s blackberry has been claimed to be a spy-proof device, the world’s most famous hacker Kevin Mitnick says that it can still be breached.He said that Obama’s super-secure BlackBerry only makes cracking into it more challenging, but it can still be done.

gclef writes “Buried deep in the details of the US stimulus package is an interesting provision that might go a long way toward helping Open Source software break into the medical area. It says that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should study the availability of open source health technology systems (PDF, page 488), compare their TCO against proprietary systems and report on what they find no later than Oct 1, 2010. Slashdotters may also be interested in the language that starts on page 553 of that PDF to see just what the final package says about broadband.” The stimulus plan was approved by the Senate on Friday and is expected to be signed by President Obama by Monday.

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An anonymous reader writes “When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama’s ‘victory’ in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the US president’s e-mail communications private from spies and hackers. The news coverage and analysis by armchair security experts thus far has failed to focus on the real threat: attacks against President Obama’s location privacy, and the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president’s real-time physical location. In this article, a CNET blogger digs into the real risks associated with the President carrying around a tracking device at all times.”

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama’s 8bn economic stimulus package so that ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement, and other unlawful activity by way of “reasonable network management.” Clearly, a lobbyist whispering in Feinstein’s ear has taken Comcast’s famous lies even further into the realm of BS.