Friday, December 31, 2004
I guess I'm supposed to do an end-of-year wrapup?
All right. Grumble.
Organized crime seemed to be moving into computer crime increasingly in 2004. I haven't seen solid proof of this yet but there's not much room for doubt. Some of the phishing scams sent money to Russia. Maybe, just maybe, somebody started those without paying protection to the Russian mafia. You can bet they are now.
The other big trend is Microsoft's continuing transformation. They created their products in a vanished world that needed flexibility above all. Today their products face the rough-and-tumble of the Internet. Microsoft is like a professional gymnast trying out for pro football. Microsoft succeeded with their web server product, Internet Information Server 6, which security experts describe using a security geek's term of ultimate respect, "boring". XP Service Pack 2 was good work -- install it if you haven't already. But use Firefox to surf the web.
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Organized crime seemed to be moving into computer crime increasingly in 2004. I haven't seen solid proof of this yet but there's not much room for doubt. Some of the phishing scams sent money to Russia. Maybe, just maybe, somebody started those without paying protection to the Russian mafia. You can bet they are now.
The other big trend is Microsoft's continuing transformation. They created their products in a vanished world that needed flexibility above all. Today their products face the rough-and-tumble of the Internet. Microsoft is like a professional gymnast trying out for pro football. Microsoft succeeded with their web server product, Internet Information Server 6, which security experts describe using a security geek's term of ultimate respect, "boring". XP Service Pack 2 was good work -- install it if you haven't already. But use Firefox to surf the web.
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