w/ Malcolm Lloyd
In a successful capitalistic society, the government's job is to regulate industry and protect the people from being harmed or exploited. It annoys me when I hear people cry about excessive regulation. Corporations, by design, can't be trusted. They have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to return the most money possible within the boundaries of the law. That can be interpreted differently by different CEOs and Boards but ultimately the idea stands. As long as it's legal and increases profits, do...
The NYTimes has an article up about strong passwords not offering strong security. I'll cut to the chase: They're Wrong. Mr. Herley, the subject of the piece who works for Microsoft Research, talks about how it "isn't plausible" that Amazon and other heavily trafficked Web sites would have some of the most relaxed password policies on the internet if they weren't sure that doing so would have no material risk to your security. I disagree. Let's use Amazon as an example. What is Amazon's main business function...
