Some new company called Digg recieved 2.8 million dollars for what amounts to a trivial Web 2.0 application developed using Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and possibly SQLite.
I hope they bought plenty of Aeron chairs and Cisco routers for their employees to take home when their paychecks start bouncing and the electricity gets turned off.
CNN is reporting that Al Qaeda terrorists used Asterisk VoIP technology to mastermind the terrorist attack that occured in Jordan last Friday. This information comes from high up in the intelligence community, which reported that their ability to intercept illegally encrypted VoIP telephone calls is non-existant.
Earlier today, ZDNet reported that Skype-to-Skype calls are a terror risk. Skype is a Peer to Peer (P2P) VoIP application that is popular because of its lack of security and no centralized server for the government to tap into.
Hopefully this will convince the government to outlaw uncontrolled VoIP communication software, and put tighter controls on so-called “open source” programming. People who develop tools that only benefit the terrorists are just as evil as the ones who strap bombs to their chests.