svegby's posterous

Aggregating my digital self

As brought up for discussion at the IDC event in Copenhagen

As a part of my presentation at the annual Mobility Summit hosted by IDC I brought up the seriousness of the current situation with security regarding the most popular mobile operating systems in combination with lack of control / data integrity enforcement on the application store side. This not only the official ones but especially app stores being hosted by other vendors than the OS manufacturers themselves. Here is one good proof on what I was talking about.

I maintain my stand that 2012 will show some serious incidents based on vulnerability utilization in the mobile field with fairly big consequences as a result. Keep this in mind when you are deploying corp data onto mobile devices, ensure and enforce security and in instances when data cannot be secure enough do not let the corp data reach those units.

Data Retention Directive passed in Sweden

So, it finally happened....

The Data Retention Directive was passed in Sweden which has been excluded since it was passed on a EU level in 2006, politically driven from the Madrid and later UK bombings. Now also Swedes (May 1st 2012) can look forward to some good old fashioned Dictator / Totalitarian monitoring ala North Korea or Syria.

How sane and supposedly well educated representatives of the Citizens of Sweden can pass such a directive is beyond my comprehension.

Lets hope that the future Governments in Europe stay democratic since the monitoring otherwise will be used with truly bad intentions, but that has probably already been given some thought before the proposal was initiated...... or then again, maybe not..?

A great comment from a sharp mind:

Mikko Hypponen @ TEDtalks


Secret rooms opened for one day in Sweden

Although Sweden has enjoyed 200+yrs of peace it has been subjected to
political tensions due to the fact that the country for many years was
more or less squeezed between US/Nato (Norway is a member) and the
Soviet Union with only Finland as buffer zone.

During this time serious amounts of money and time was spend on
creating a strong and well functional defense against invasion.

One of many components were bunkers/rooms above or under ground
creating a strong perimeter (Stockholm Archipelago is pretty much
perforated with old military installations) of which many are still
inaccessible today.

For one day the National Property Board are opening some of those
secret and hidden rooms to the public. Do not miss out on this
opportunity:

http://www.hemligarum.se/sv/hemligarum/trailer/