3 articles of note from E-Week

[laurierobey]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967941,00.asp?kc=ewnws052606dtx1k0000599

Symantec AntiVirus Worm Hole Puts Millions at Risk


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1968014,00.asp

Climbing the IT Ladder: Career Advice from Experts (in a nutshell, IT unemployment is lower now than it was at th height of the dot-com boom, and certifications are less important now than general business and communication skills)


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967942,00.asp?kc=ewnws052606dtx1k0000599

Motion Picture Association Accused of Hacking (A company that's being sued by the MPAA for having links to BitTorrent has filed suit against the MPAA claiming that the MPAA hired a hacker to break into their systems to get evidence for the MPAA's suit against them. If this turns out to be true, coupled with the piracy from earlier, the MPAA's not looking too good.)

Comments

[fferret.livejournal.com]

Symantec: This is the second major security flaw they've had! I'm switching to....nothing! I run Linux at home! Fortunately, the kid and wife are on McAfee.

Climbing the IT Ladder: Having just found a full-time position myself at the beginning of the year, I can gladly endorse Geek Full Employment! Now we just need to convince management that investing in offshoring and H-1Bs is also not going to get the work done any cheaper or faster.

MPAA: This is a variation on an old practice...catch someone breaking into your network or servers and then recruit them to secure them. I have to agree that it makes the MPAA look bad, but the evidence is probably inadmissable in a court to begin with, as it is 'fruit of the poisonous tree', having been obtained in an illegal manner.