Thursday, May 30, 2013

Three stories with a common thread

http://www.titanicuniverse.com/titanic-the-unsinkable-ship/1443

We believe that the boat is unsinkable.

-Philip Franklin, Vice-President of White Star Line



http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/28/18567413-officials-downplay-report-on-china-hacking-military-secrets


U.S. officials on Tuesday attempted to downplay a new government report that found Chinese hackers gained access to some of the country's major weapons systems, saying the compromised information was of "lower sensitivity."
“They aren’t building an F-35 in Beijing from what they got,” a senior U.S. official told NBC News, declining to give any real specifics.



http://news.yahoo.com/school-database-loses-backers-parents-balk-over-privacy-162614630.html

When teachers got a sneak peek, "by far the most common question was, 'Could we get this in my classroom tomorrow?'" said Greg Mortimer, the chief information officer for the 85,000-student district. He added that the project should save the district money because software developers will be able to hook their programs cleanly into the inBloom infrastructure. The way things now stand, he said, the district has to spend heavily to integrate each app into the county's cumbersome and overlapping data systems.

Mortimer said he has no doubt privacy would be protected: "InBloom has the resources to secure this data better than any single school district in the country."



Pleasant dreams all....