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Entries from October 2006

Genghis Khan is Alive and Well! Or Posting Anonymously to Blogs

October 27th, 2006 · 746 Comments

This particular post has been prompted by the following comment posted on my blog by someone calling themselves ‘A Slacker’ (Read it here). They are unhappy at what they feel is censorship in another blog also accessed under the auspices of the Exc-el.org portal run by our Education division.
I don’t really want to go into [...]

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Tags: Opinion

Internet Security

October 13th, 2006 · 9 Comments

One constant criticism we in IT receive is that we always refuse to do things in the way users want because of security.  I’ve heard the comment that IT use security as the argument to trump all others when we don’t want to do something. I really do take exception to this. Most users of IT [...]

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Tags: Information