education – The BillBlog

June 23, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 16th through June 23rd

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 16th and June 23rd:

Civil Service: Participation online guidance – Excellent advice for all of us who venture online, not just civil servants.
E-piphanies – Machinations – The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down – Nice article outlining some of the dangers that come from widgets/clouds
Schneier on Security: Underhanded Implementation of RC4 – Nice comment on the problems with computer science teaching today
Future of libraries – Nice selection of material from The Guardian

November 11, 2007

Time for teaching

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, though the headline isn’t one I’d have chosen for a piece that’s about IT education rather than malware..]

At some point this evening I am going to have to sit down with my fourteen year old son and have a quiet, paternal word with him about hygiene and trust.

It’s nothing to do with how frequently he showers or changes his socks, and only indirectly related to how freely he should accept sweets from strangers.
The problem is with his computer, as only six months after he moved from using a virus-prone Windows PC to a Macintosh computer the first serious threat to Mac users has been observed ‘in the wild’.

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