Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 224 Editor's Choice: 8
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@Glenn
[Read the article: McCain, spying and executive power: A complete reversal in 6 months]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thought you'd at least enjoy (?) the irony in the below. "We'll help you keep people (other than us) from spying on you."
PRESS RELEASE: AT&T Launches Encryption Services to Help Businesses Secure E-mail and Data
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:00 AM
AT&T Expands Managed Security Services Portfolio
SAN ANTONIO, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has announced the availability of managed security services that help businesses better protect their data -- AT&T Encryption Services(SM). This offer is designed to help protect companies from data loss and leakage while also addressing regulatory-compliance concerns, the non-repudiation of data and privacy issues.
AT&T Encryption Services, the most recent addition to AT&T's enterprise security portfolio, is focused on the protection of information by providing encryption services and management of digital signatures "in the cloud."
Some of the capabilities of AT&T Encryption Services include e-mail confidentiality to help prevent unauthorized parties from accessing critical messages and attachments, authentication of the e-mail sender, as well as non-repudiation: a validation of the integrity of the e-mail message and its contents that ensures the recipient that the message was not modified.
The AT&T Encryption Services portfolio has additional features including:
-- Encrypted Mail: Developed to encrypt e-mail messages and attachments on
the personal computer, this offer supports Outlook, Lotus Notes,
Outlook Express, BlackBerry(R) and Webmail.
-- Encrypted Mail Gateway: An enterprise policy-management filter
transparently determines whether e-mail should be encrypted. It
features industry-trusted encryption standards such as PKI, X.509 and
S/MIME and includes a message-pickup center for nonsubscribers.
-- Encrypted Mail Exchange: This enables businesses to establish groups
within a message-exchange platform, which provides full encryption
services for e-mail and e-mail attachments. This is designed for
organizations that need to secure messaging for distinct groups within
the organization, such as human resources and accounting. It features
audit trail reports and compliance with Industry Auditing Rules and
Regulations.
-- Encrypted Documents: This feature establishes the secure exchange of
sensitive information between an individual and a user group by
encrypting folder or network drives and all of the data contained
within them. The Encrypted Documents feature reduces internal data
leakage and theft of confidential data, as well as provides compliance
with industry regulations when handling confidential information.
-- Encrypted Document Delivery: This offer provides the functionality to
replace regular postal communications used for statements, invoices and
notices with secure, signed and trusted e-mail messages and statement
notifications. This is an end-to-end signed and encrypted
document-delivery application that allows organizations to reduce
operational costs and safeguard their client identities from statement
theft and password interception.
"Data protection and loss prevention is becoming increasingly critical for businesses of all sizes with data breaches costing organizations more and more each year," said S. Dale McHenry, vice president, Enterprise Network Services, AT&T. "AT&T's managed security services provide businesses with the tools and resources that they need to securely handle their data, helping to enforce data privacy and save money with the electronic transfer of documents."
AT&T's managed security services portfolio is centered on the principles of delivering and leading the market with in-the-cloud security solutions to help enterprises reduce costs and remove the dependency on hardware and software. AT&T's strategy for security is to provide a "defense in depth" approach to security, with features built into the various network layers, applications and supporting processes.
AT&T Security and Business Continuity Services deliver a suite of solutions to help assess vulnerabilities, protect infrastructure, detect attacks, respond to suspicious activities and events and design enterprise networking environments for nonstop operations. More information on AT&T security offerings can be found at http://www.business.att.com/security.
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$3MM ain't that much
[Read the article: What should we do with our $3 million?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At current interest rates, invested in a low-risk portfolio, that's about $100k/year before taxes. Not nothing, but not enough to live on comfortably in a lot of cities in the US.
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"your own perhaps well-grounded fears"
[Read the article: My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, they're not well grounded. That doesn't mean the OP doesn't have them, but a fear of flying is fundamentally irrational (in the sense that the fear is not appropriately aligned with the actual risk involved).
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Mooney's right, though
[Read the article: Following the junk science money trail ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Based on the stats IARC came up with, it cannot be said with 95% certainty that 2nd hand smoke increases lung cancer risk. I agree it very probably does (and, as a non-smoker, I just plain don't like the stuff), but the science (confidence interval at 95% of 0.93-1.44, where 1.0 is risk with no 2nd hand smoke exposure) doesn't allow you to draw that conclusion with a 95% level of confidence.
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I believe this is the article
[Read the article: Following the junk science money trail ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's 1998, not 1988, but that may be a typo.
http://www.obscurious.co.uk/componants/smoking1440.pdf
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@Pinwiz
[Read the article: The 3G iPhone: Faster, cheaper, GPS. $199 on July 11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No jailbreaking on this one. It won't be sold without a contract. You can take it home and activate it at home, but only if (a) you pay with a credit card, and (b) sign a contract authorizing a much larger charge (rumor is $400-500) if you don't activate within 30 days. So, I suppose you could jailbreak it, but then it's a $600-700 device.
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@James Cornish
[Read the article: Is Obama a protectionist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think what he's trying to say (and the research, including quite a bit by Krugman, supports this) is that technological change has had a much greater impact on job losses than trade has - in other words, jobs haven't been shipped overseas, they've been replaced by machines.
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be careful about words
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"and carriers caught an awful lot of flack"
Generally love the column, but:
1. it's spelled (usually) flak
2. it's short for "Fliegerabwehrkanonen," German for anti-aircraft artillery
You might choose a different phrase, as you probably wouldn't say that the airline's response to idiotic security measures has "bombed."