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The gag is back: let’s stop it now!

***************Italian version below********************** Dear friends across Italy, Berlusconi’s government is shamelessly trying to bulldoze the infamous “gag law” through Parliament again — a law which undermines the pillars of our democracy. Our politicians are in shambles — only a public uproar can stop it now. Click below to sign the urgent petition for democracy and freedom of information. We only have a few days left! It’s outrageous! The infamous “legge bavaglio” is back on the table and Parliament could pass it any day now – only a massive public outcry can stop it. Berlusconi’s coalition is in tatters, but as…

Good Bye Steve

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Is a sad moment for every tech fan. Steve Jobs has design a big part of our world, with his vision and genius gave us tablets, smartphones, computer animation movies and so much things we today consider normal or simply cool. He was nor a Saint or an Angel, but for sure a genius with an incredible talent to foresee and create the future. We will miss his arrogance, because was the arrogance of someone who knows how to create the future. He made us dream with his ideas, his talent and his strength….

Wikipedia Hides Italian Language Edition to Protest New Law

“Wikipedia Hides Italian Language Edition to Protest New Law PCWorld By John Ribeiro, IDG News Wikipedia said it was hiding the Italian edition of the online encyclopedia to protest against a proposed new rule in the country, that will require websites to publish corrections within 48 hours of content being found … ” Ok when we will see the end of the tunnel? Italy is well known for an inefficient political class, but what many does not know is how good they’re to put barrier against free speech and, generally spaking, the intenet. It is not just this new law…

SOA, Cloud and the network–part 1

Image via Wikipedia It is now a quite very long time we talk about new architectures for our environment. What is leading the way, nowadays, is talking about SOA and Cloud, but what do really means for us implementing those architecture in our networks? One of the problem I’ve noticed when talking with customers and partners is that they usually try to use the same techniques they used for the old network deployment to the new ones. this is a mistake for several reasons, but for a mere philosophical point of view make a little, if not at all, sense to apply…

Anonymous vs BART (Simpson?) part2

Still I read a lot on Anonymous hacking group, even that they threaten children or declare war against UK for expenditure cuts, also Strauss khan seems to be threatened by Anonymous. Reading news seems that they’re an unstoppable force of nature… I left my thoughts last time on why internet and why now, and why  they’re so (in)famous. So about the first point: why internet?  If they’re a unstructured movement is natural that they choose, grow and move onto the media that makes communication most easier. The relatively growing of importance of social media, messenger and other communication systems made very easy recruitment and association on the met. We…

Anonymous vs BART (Simpson?)

Image via WikipediaOK the latest are that group anonymous is attacking BART system in San Francisco. It’s a very funny target from my point of view, probably because thinking of an hacking attack to our Italian subway system would be ridiculous. Just because nobody would notice it of course 🙂 But the last Anonymous attack make me wonder what is really anonymous, and similar group like lulzsec or web-ninja and so on. Are those a real groups? And what are the reasons behind their moves? Do they really have a defined  agenda? and a boss or a hierarchy? Usually press and police try to consider those groups as organized crime or terrorist….

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Image via WikipediaOK the latest are that group anonymous is attacking BART system in San Francisco. It’s a very funny target from my point of view, probably because thinking of an hacking attack to our Italian subway system would be ridiculous. Just because nobody would notice it of course 🙂 But the last Anonymous attack make me wonder what is really anonymous, and similar group like lulzsec or web-ninja and so on. Are those a real groups? And what are the reasons behind their moves? Do they really have a defined  agenda? and a boss or a hierarchy? Usually press and police try to consider those groups as organized crime or terrorist….

Risk and Security: how much to spend? first step:define the process – 005

We can now, after this long intro, try to do a little test to see if we can really define a good method to determine how much to spend for security needs. First of all we should try to define which process we want to consider. I opted for the Email systems because this is, generally speaking, a strongly neglected and misunderstood  area of IT process. While mail is widely used and accepted as a communication media worldwide there are a few implementations that consider email security as a whole process involving users, data, and business value. the usual consideration we find around email is:…

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