A plague of breaches – Can security breaches be blocked with methods used to fight human plagues? Investment banker Andrew Stewart and Microsoft strategist Adam Shostack, writing in Information Week this month, suggest as much in their lengthy joint essay: The Case for Disclosing Security Breach Data … Calling the jury – Think you are anonymous when you sit in judgment on a jury? Think again. Ken Ritter of the Associated Press reports that an employee of a printer in Las Vegas, working on mailing jury summons copied names, social security numbers, and addresses of potential jurors into a personal e-mail file and kept it there until it was discovered by the owner. Still under investigation ...
■ Tom Goff