Researchers recently identified a security issue in Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) that allows a hacker to to locate and eavesdrop on targeted virtual machines anywhere in the cloud. The report--with the catchy title "Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Computer Clouds". According to [...]
Buddha teaches us that there are only two mistakes that can be made along the road to truth: not starting and not going all the way. In the brief history of Internet governance, few initiatives have been greeted with wider support than the recently signed Affirmation of Commitments between the [...]
This news story from last week just about speaks for itself, and little commentary is needed. (And no, it's not a leftover from April 1.) It feels like something that should be on SNL's "Really?!?!?! With Seth & Amy." I mean, China... Really?!Chinese Group Says Google Violating Copyrights
Back in 2007, ACT worked with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to write a groundbreaking paper entitled National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with Creative Cities. The paper pointed out that “innovation is the ‘secret sauce’ for the growth and prosperity of economies,” with [...]
Braden Cox & Nora von Ingersleben | June 2009 Today's tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what [...]