A few weeks ago, John Fontana at Identity Matters reported NIST’s sequestration budget cuts will affect the NSTIC program management office but spare awarded NSTIC pilots. The Commerce Department official said, “The reductions required by sequestration will adversely affect all NIST cybersecurity related efforts through cutbacks on travel, contracts, grants, and other operational expenses. NIST currently does not anticipate eliminating […]
Mass-Educational Databases = Wrong Architecture
5 March 2013 by
Every day it seems there is a new story about new “big data” systems are going to make things better – but then… they just made things creepier. The latest news like this came from inBloom Inc. via SXSW-Edu (on Reuters). inBloom is a newly formed nonprofit to host a massive database of […]