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January 2009, #177
It's a battle as old as time: good vs. evil. Fortunately, Linux and FOSS are on our side as we wage the battle against those who try to steal our secrets and invade our systems.
Checking your system's security is best done sooner rather than later. Test the locks with our article on security verification; find out how to use PAM to help secure your systems; use MinorFS and AppArmor to implement discretionary access control; learn more about Samba security in part III of our series; use Darknet to help detect bots and secure your systems; use the Yubikey to increase your site's security; and don't forget to lock the doors, because a cold boot attack could render your security useless if somebody has physical access to your computer.
But, we're not just about sowing the seeds of fear. We also show you how to use memcached in Rails, how to manage multiple servers efficiently, how to deploy applications easily with Capistrano, how to manage your videos with MythVideo, how to mix it up a bit (your audio that is), and even play a few games.
Finding "enough"
On June 26th, 2008 Doc Searls says:
I agree that it is essential for Big Boys to get involved. Google and Microsoft already are, with Google Health and HealthVault. But I don't agree that "It will never be in the commercial interest of health information system vendors to adopt standardized formats for storage and exchange". It wasn't in any big information systems vendor's interest to adopt the Internet and its standards, and they all did. Of course, they had to, because the Net, the Web, email and the rest of it became a necessity, whether they liked it or not. And today they wouldn't go back. Maybe that's your point too. "Kicking and screaming," indeed.
Every large back-end service has proprietary qualities. This is even true of Linux-based stuff like Amazon's S3 and EC2. What's important from the user's perspective is that the data belongs to them, and not to the system. And that the data is portable. If I want to move my data from HealthVault to Google Health, I should be able to do that, at my own volition.
__________________________Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal