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12.06.2011, 06:36
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I read in the last few years a couple of times the request about the including the option to encrypt your /home or even / while installing. I would like to ask once more if that would be something others would be interested in.
I have 3 notebooks, all with aptosid installed and I would be very happy about such an option.
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RE: installer with option to encrypt
12.06.2011, 07:50
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http://manual.aptosid.com/en/hd-install ... tall-crypt
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RE: installer with option to encrypt
12.06.2011, 08:46
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thanks muchan I read that ... twice actually
and I still find it slightly more challenging and time intensive than clicking a tick box "encrypt home".
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12.06.2011, 12:29
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Firstly, I love the Monty Python avatar you use.
Regarding crypt stuff: The manual has been updated online on manual.aptosid.com over the last day or so and should enter the aptosid repo sometime in the next 3 days.
While I may say 'crypt stuff is not likely to be a check box', however, I am not going to say 'never say never' either.
Aside from that, there are a stack of issues brewing for booting 2TB disks which are becoming common..
If all else fails, get the instructions back out of the rubbish bin and read them.
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12.06.2011, 14:28
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Encrypting /home only isn't very secure as information will likely leak into /tmp and swap (at least) so I don't think it's appropriate to add this as a feature to the installer.
However if you really want to only encrypt /home you can just do a simple install to one partition, setup an encrypted partition (luksFormat, luksOpen and mkfs, the manual page linked can help with these) and then add it to /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab.
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12.06.2011, 14:30
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Thanks bluewater,
John Cleese kicks ass and brings the message better across than the avatar before that gave slam almost a legal heart attack.
Anyway thanks for the information. I think I saw the tick box in ubuntu, but than again you see many things that not make sense on ubuntu
Didn't know that crypt has trouble with big drives. I guess the notebooks where crypt makes sense hit the 1TB mark now. So crypt has a year or two to work on the problem.
I can also not imagine how long it must take to prepare a 2TB drive for encryption, your hardware might be out of date before you can start
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12.06.2011, 16:24
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bluewater wrote:
Firstly, I love the Monty Python avatar you use.
Regarding crypt stuff: The manual has been updated online on manual.aptosid.com over the last day or so and should enter the aptosid repo sometime in the next 3 days.
While I may say 'crypt stuff is not likely to be a check box', however, I am not going to say 'never say never' either.
Aside from that, there are a stack of issues brewing for booting 2TB disks which are becoming common..
Adding encryption support to the installer would be a nice touch, perhaps adding it to an advanced installation options tab or section.
You'd need GPT support for booting from disks that size, and the tools for GPT are not quite stable enough for production use yet and is still experimental.
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12.06.2011, 19:48
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The installer has encryption support already as described in the manual, you "just" need to setup, open and format the encrypted device manually outside the installer, but it will recognise that you have chosen an encrypted root partition and configure things so it will boot ok.
Making the installer handle encrypting partitions though means complicating things a lot with respect to how it currently works. Right now the installer expects you to handle partitioning first so it can find the filesystems to offer you for your root (and other) partitions and it does this by simply letting you run a partitioning tool.
None of the partitioning tools (that I know of) will handle configuring a partition for encryption so you would need another stage to go between partitioning and choosing your install targets which would let you pick partitions to encrypt and what type of filesystem to place inside it. Then to do things sanely this would also want to allow you to setup lvm inside the encrypted container partition (e.g. so you can have your swap encrypted without requiring a second password prompt on boot). So really adding some sort of nice interface to setting up encryption as part of the installer would first/also mean adding fancier lvm support.
Attempting to do this sort of thing in the installer is likely to complicate it considerably and so far nobody (that I know of) has attempted to take that job on to try and come up with anything sane that doesn't make the installer more fragile or less friendly to most users. The usual "patches welcome" applies however I'd warn anyone contemplating it that unless you can come up with a neat and foolproof concept such patches are unlikely to be accepted. Imagine the anger if "just ticking the box" leads to people destroying data either because they get confused or because of bugs in the code.
As for GPT support the installer will already work with a GPT disk transparently if you use lvm. I've actually been working today on adding support for normal partitions on a GPT disk to the installer and think I have a sane patch.
UEFI though is a bigger mess and if you want to boot from a partition which crosses the 2TB barrier on a disk a plain bios won't cut it (afaict). As long as you keep the boot partition before the 2TB barrier though I think you can use a regular bios to boot your system (3TB disks being too expensive still for me to have bought one just for the hell of it to test such things, I did go out of my way to get a UEFI board though for my new system).
GPT+UEFI+>2TB disks though have nothing to do with encryption. There are just likely to be people willing to work on adding support for that though before anyone is likely to think again about adding further encryption or lvm support to the installer. There are only so many people who actually work on these things and as volunteers they primarily "scratch their own itches" so it's no surprise to me that nobody has yet tried to add layers of complexity to the installer to make encrypted installs even easier. I was testing encrypted installs in a vm yesterday and it took me under 5 minutes to boot, set it up, install and reboot into a working system so I've personally no itch to scratch there.
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12.06.2011, 20:14
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bfree, wold be nice if the partitioner part can have support for creating encrypted partitions from the get go such as having an option like "Encrypt this partition" when you select "Format To" when selecting a partition.
Let us know how the GPT and UEFI stuff goes so in future releases we can easily install Aptosid on such boards and drives
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12.06.2011, 22:23
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bfree, wold be nice if the partitioner part can have support for creating encrypted partitions from the get go such as having an option like "Encrypt this partition" when you select "Format To" when selecting a partition.
I addressed this in my prior post but I guess I'll go through it some more and spell it out a little further.
First off "the partitioner part" to me means the external partitioning tools (e.g. gparted and cfdisk), none of which have any support for encryption.
But I'll assume you mean the full tab in the installer which deals with launching partitioning tools, choosing your root partition (and it's format) and the mountpoints for other partitions.
If you want an encrypted root partition then you will need also need an unencrypted boot partition, so enabling the mythical option you talk of would also need to force you to choose a suitable boot partition (or confirm you plan to have an unbootable machine and arrange some other way to boot it).
If you want an encrypted partition and plan to use swap then you will also want that encrypted, and if you don't want to have to enter two passwords during boot then this will mean that you will probably want to use lvm on an encrypted device. This means that the mythical option will need to check if there is any swap and either confirm that it should be encrypted (including getting a password) or issue dire warnings about having unencrypted swap. The final option here for the mythical option would be that the installer should have to offer to setup an lvm volume group inside the chosen partition and then split that up into your swap and root filesysetms (inclduing setting their sizes and filesystems). At this point you are then choosing to use as your root partition a logical volume inside the volume group you created inside the partition you initially selected as your root partition. Hopefully just trying to understand the last sentence will help people understand how this just doesn't fit into the current framework.
Now you also only choose anything related to formatting for the root partition, so none of this will let anyone do anything like just encrypting /home (which I personally think is silly anyway, you're bound to want at least swap also encrypted). If options like the mythical one are added to all the partitions then there's extra potential to destroy existing data along with extra scope for people managing to find bugs which could do even more damage.
In summary this means a major invasive rewrite of the installer (gui), complicating it significantly, adding lots of potentially confusing options and opening up plenty more chances for something to go wrong destroying people's data. It's far more realistic to leave the installer as it is now and perhaps work on trying to improve the manual to help explain things more clearly (at least until someone gets the undying urge to rework the installer to add lvm support).
DeepDayze wrote:
Let us know how the GPT and UEFI stuff goes so in future releases we can easily install Aptosid on such boards and drives
As I mentioned, GPT works with lvm already and who knows it might work with normal partitions for the next release.
Most boards with a real UEFI (i.e. not apple though they will probably work with bootcamp or refit or something) will support bios/legacy booting which will let you also install aptosid just fine already as long as you don't try to put the boot partition somewhere that crosses the 2TB barrier.
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First of all thank you for the detailed information especially from bfree.
I understand the technical difficulties now a lot better.
For the stability of the installer, yes of course you want to make sure it is save to use and not wipes out all the data.
As of the installer gui. I understand that things should be keep clean and easy to understand, that is why I would use a advanced/encrypt option which is only editable if the user chooses to do so.
I don't know if that is possible, how much work would be involved and how save that would be.
I think the ubuntu installer did only have the option for /home/ and I haven't checked if they have that option. Which I understand is not save at all.
Windows have there BitLocker not sure about Mac.
All I am saying is that it would be a nice feature to have.
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1. Disney : As owner of ESPN, the U.S. broadcaster with English language rights to show the tournament, Disney paid $100 million to secure the rights for broadcasting the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. But with soccer growing in popularity in the U.S. — viewership rose 22% from the 2006 to the 2010 World Cups — the price could prove to be a bargain, said Trustnet analysts. The fact that Fox paid $425 million for the broadcasting rights for the 2018 and 2022 contests is icing on the cake, they said.
2. & 3. Ford & GM : With Hyundai as a sponsor of the tournament, rival car makers will probably try and \"hijack\" the marketing space whenever possible, without actually mentioning the World Cup, according to Trustnet.
\"With GM's ongoing shirt sponsorship of Manchester United — via the Chevrolet brand — the auto industry has already recognized the power of the beautiful game,\" the analysts said.
4. Nike : Nike\'s situation is similar to Ford and GM. Rival sportswear company Adidas is one the official sponsors of the World Cup and creator of the Brazuca ball (the ball to be used during the matches that was specifically designed for Brazil weather), but Nike has already tried to leverage their own sales. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. company is the leading supplier of jerseys, sponsoring 10 national teams this year, more than it has ever done before and one more team than Adidas.
Nike has also hit social media with a high-quality, hilarious five-minute animated advert, humorously featuring soccer stars such as Portugal\'s Cristiano Ronaldo and England\'s Wayne Rooney.
5 & 6. Twitter and Facebook : This year\'s World Cup has been pegged to be the \"most social event ever,\" and is expected from a social media standpoint to outperform the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, 2012 London Summer Olympics and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, according to Ed Erhardt, ESPN\'s president of global customer marketing.
Whether that prediction holds remains to be seen, but — record breaking or not — the tournament is poised to garner lots of likes and hash tags on social media. Twenty-one million Facebook users already \"like\" the FIFA World Cup Brazil page and #Brasil2014 and #FakeWorldCupFacts were among the highest trending hashtags in the U.S. on Twitter Thursday.
7. Coca-Cola : The popular soft drink company is one of the official sponsors of the World Cup and \"assuming the brand has done its calculations right, the marketing value derived from the sponsor's premium should offer a dividend,\" the Trustnet analysts said.
A Harris Poll from May indicated that 62% of U.S. soccer fans take notice of the companies that support their favorite team or players, \"so sponsorships like this, whilst not identical, should certainly help embed the brand,\" Trustnet said.
One caveat, though. With the social issues and demonstrations in Brazil related to the World Cup, Coke may need to tread carefully.
8 & 9. McDonald\'s and Visa : Both companies are official sponsors of the event as well, so the same logic as above applies here.
\"They can expect a lot of exposure, so assuming the numbers have been pitched correctly then the short-term lift for sales — and longer term benefits for shareholders — should be realized,\" Trustnet said.
Putting this into context, a report from sports-marketing research firm Repucom showed more than $4 billion was generated globally for sponsors during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
10. Twenty-First Century Fox : Fox has already bought the U.S. English language rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups for $425 million, a substantially premium compared to the $100 million ESPN paid for the 2010 and 2014 events.
\"If this World Cup proves to be a success with advertisers, 21st Century Fox will be happy,\" Trustnet said. \"Whether growing interest in soccer can justify the more than four times premium that's been paid remains to be seen, but it's difficult to imagine the price of the broadcast rights in the U.S. can keep growing at this pace for much longer.\"
The company was previously a part of News Corp., which is the owner of MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.
— Sara Sjolin
More World Cup must-reads from MarketWatch:
6 innovations making their debut at the World Cup
Yahoo says Brazil will win World Cup


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So far in 2013, the Ravens are missing a key element from their 2012 season: big passing plays down the field.
Last season, quarterback Joe Flacco had 1,100 passing yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions on passes thrown beyond 20 yards. He threw 92 such passes, which accounted for 17.3 percent of his total throws. That frequency led all NFL quarterbacks and was a full percent more than Russell Wilson, who was second.
This season, Flacco is in the top six among NFL quarterbacks in frequency of deep balls thrown, but he has completed just two passes beyond 20 yards for 63 yards and no touchdowns, according to Pro Football Focus.
He has had more success on passes thrown between 10 and 19 yards, completing nine of 16 for 147 yards and a touchdown. Flacco, who leads all NFL quarterbacks in attempts, has thrown 59 passes within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage.
Still, it may not feel like it because the passes are failing harmlessly to the turf, but Flacco is actually attempting more deep passes per game than he did last season. But once again, that data is skewed because Flacco has thrown three games worth of passes in the season's first two weeks.
The big plays have been lacking, though. Last year, the Ravens had 62 passing plays of 20 or more yards, which ranked fifth in the NFL. They had 41 completions of 25-plus yards. This season, they have eight completions of 20-plus yards, but six of them were caught within 20 yards of the line of scrimmage and the receiver added the rest of the yards after the catch.
Losing outside wide receiver Jacoby Jones midway through the season opener has definitely been a factor, as has been the injury to tight end Dennis Pitta. Jones was responsible for some of those catches down the field and Pitta attracted the attention of the safeties, creating one-on-one matchups on the outside. Trading away Anquan Boldin obviously hurts, too.
The Ravens did leave a couple of deep touchdowns on the field against the Cleveland Browns, though. Marlon Brown dropped a would-be touchdown and Torrey Smith bobbled a deep throw in the end zone before catching it out of bounds.
We shouldn't draw too concrete of a conclusion based on two games against quality defenses. But it will be worth watching to see if their deep passing game can start clicking.


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Where Is BYOD Heading?
Every time I talk with chief information officers (CIOs) or other senior IT executives, one of the key topics that comes up is the "consumerization of IT," or what is often referred to as "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD). This is the trend of users bringing in iPads, iPhones, Android phones, and sometimes even their own laptops, and expecting to use these to gain access to corporate data. The concept may horrify many CIOs, but over the past few years, this has gone from pilot projects—or something people were allowing for the CEO and top executives—to a reality at most large enterprises. The move toward mobile devices is just too strong to ignore.
In many ways, this reminds me of organizations' reactions 30 years ago when the PC began to appear inside companies. Back then, we used to talk about the "PC revolution" and how it would bring computing to the masses, with certain individuals stepping up to become what we sometimes called "micro managers" (the micro for microcomputer). Initially, the PCs were completely separate from the corporate data (then usually called MIS for management information system) and used for standalone spreadsheets and word processing. Over time, they became hooked up through networks, and eventually we saw the rise of the managed corporate PC, client-server computing, and the modern Information Technology (IT) departments. To me, it's the same thing with smart mobile devices; first they were used by individuals, and now they are being let into corporate data and requiring at least a certain amount of management.
There are, of course, a lot of different ways to control this. You may want to manage access to the network, or to the data itself, and there is no shortage of solutions for either. You may also want to focus on managing the device through what is often called Mobile Device Management (MDM) software. I've written about these programs before, but over the past year there have been many new entrants and many of these programs have become much more sophisticated.
Initially, much of the focus was on email (plus calendar and contacts), with many solutions assuming you'll use Microsoft's ActiveSync to deliver corporate mail, but providing tools that let an enterprise lock or delete mail if the device is lost or stolen and enforce passwords. An alternative method, popularized initially by Good Technology, involves using its own mail client in an encrypted "container," which could be separately managed. (Disclosure: in my day job, I use the Good for Enterprise solution.)
Today, the containerization concept has gained more traction; a number of the companies that allow the delivery of mail via Active Sync only allow attachments to be opened in their own encrypted containers. In addition, a number of the MDM makers are working on ways of "wrapping applications" so they can run within their secure containers. Such applications are often delivered though "enterprise app stores" aimed at B2B users. This seems to be an easy solution, but often when the applications or policies change, the applications have to be rewrapped. Not to mention, most of the big MDM players have their own SDKs for converting internal applications to their platforms.
Gartner Research VP Phillip Redman, who has focused on the issues surrounding BYOD, says he looks at the market as being divided into core mobile device management (MDM) solutions that enforce policy and configuration and more basic tools like mobile application management systems which only focus on the applications and "containerize" applications and data. But, he said, enterprises don't want multiple systems and most MDM providers already offer application management.
As he sees it, the least intrusive solutions allow the access of data through a Web browser, or though things such as the Citrix receiver. In such solutions, none of the data actually resides on the device itself, but rather is delivered through remote desktops or HTML5 applications. This does cause an issue if network connectivity isn't present, so he says a hybrid approach is best. The next step up would be a core Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, which doesn't have to put a lot of restrictions on the device, but does enforce enterprise policy. Beyond that is containerization to split off enterprise applications and data from personal apps and data, including emerging solutions that involve hypervisors to split the operating system in two. In some of these "dual persona" modes, the enterprise will have control of the corporate data only, which allows more privacy for the end user.
Taking this even further is using a hypervisor, such as VMware's Horizon product, to make the machine look like two devices. This is only available on Android systems, since Apple iOS doesn't support it. Beyond this are solutions such as those from Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs, recently acquired by General Dynamics) that build in the hypervisor directly on the hardware before the core OS is loaded. These are used mainly in military and government applications, Redman said.
Many of the other tools are getting traction, but Redman noted the issues involved in wrapping applications and said that while many of the vendors have their own SDKs, he doesn't see that any of these have any momentum in the market.
Application Vendors
At Gartner Symposium late last month, I had a chance to talk with many of the makers of MDM and mobile applications management solutions. It's interesting that while some of the bigger enterprise software companies have talked about the space, the most popular solutions come from relatively small private companies. All of these vendors support iOS and modern Android devices (some have limited support for older devices); and almost all have or are planning support for Windows Phone 8 and/or Windows 8 tablets (and many support a variety of other platforms as well). I was glad to see an increasing focus on the Mac and, in some cases, Windows laptops, because I can easily imagine that organizations would want one platform to deliver information to all kinds of devices.
I asked each of the companies what makes them stand out and received a number of interesting responses (listed in alphabetical order):
AirWatch says it is twice the size of its competitors, and CEO John Marshall said the company has the largest footprint with 4,000 customers with four or five times more end users than the others, large resellers, and support for 15 languages. He said the company has a variety of customers with 50,000 or more devices deployed. This lets the company benefit from economies of scale, allowing it to have 200 to 300 people in R&D.
Airwatch has been a pure MDM vendor, focused on management and security of the entire device, while still allowing for a native mail experience. It offers both on-premises servers and a multitenant cloud-based management service, and says 70 percent of its customers use the cloud service because it is so fast to deploy. The company supports a wide range of platforms, including Mac, and says it adds support for a new mobile OS—at least a new version of Android—every 15 days. The company is offering an app store with secure content distribution, as well as integration with SharePoint, Box, and Dropbox in an encrypted manner.
One of the newer companies in the area is Bitzer Mobile. CEO Naeem Zafar believes the idea is to make you "as productive at a mobile device as you are at your desk." Bitzer is focused on providing not just email, but access to SharePoint, documents, and Microsoft editors.
Zafar said Bitzer is different because of its ease of use, user experience, and scalability. It works with a server in the network DMZ and it can be turned on in two hours or less, with automatic configuring of email. Like Good, Bitzer has its own email client, which he says looks more like Apple's native client. It also offers complete viewing and editing of Microsoft Office documents, which stay within the secure container. It allows single sign-on to SharePoint servers via Kerberos. This solution integrates with Active Directory and allows other security features such as PINs and RSA security tokens. This is aimed at very large organizations (Zafar mentioned the "Fortune 50") but as a new company, it doesn't yet have public reference accounts.
Enterproid offers Divide, a "dual persona" solution that splits the phone into two views: the traditional personal phone and a secure container. Marketing VP Dan Dearing said the company has been focused on delivering applications beyond email and distributing its solutions through carriers such as Bell Canada and Verizon's Enterprise Mobility as a Service offering.
The basic container includes mail, contacts, calendar, and a browser (much like Good), but he said that IT can push other applications to the container based on role. The company has an app wrapper and uses a VPN tunnel to connect applications directly to an organization's data center. This is a cloud-based solution, so it's easy to get users up and running, but no data is stored in the cloud. The company offers APIs for all sorts of applications and allows for file storage access using Box. Dearing says Enterproid has about 100 enterprise customers, with over 100,000 container downloads.
Dearing said one of the differences in Enterproid's solution is that it is licensed by the user, not the device, and will be notably less expensive. In this solution, an IT department can manage the container, but not the full device, thus eliminating privacy and liability concerns.
Like AirWatch and Mobile Iron, Fiberlink's MaaS360 started out as a pure MDM solution, delivering mail to the native clients on a device. The company has about 2,000 customers and supports over 1.5 million devices, with government clearance and the GSA as a reference account.
It's completely focused on a multitenant, cloud-based platform and companies can get systems up and running within minutes. But it now offers a "cloud extender" and APIs that let you tie the system back into existing enterprise systems such as Active Directory. It uses a single console that can manage not only smartphones and tablets, but also Windows and Mac laptops and desktops. Maas360 lets you set policies based on specific events or locations, and includes settings to protect personally identifiable information.
Good Technology is best known for pioneering the secure container approach through its Good For Enterprise solution, which it has offered for more than a decade. (I first used it on a Palm Treo in the early 2000s.) More recently, it has focused on its Good Dynamics platform, which provides tools for deploying secure applications within the container. Lately, the company has been expanding. It acquired AppCentral, which offers application wrapping so you can "wrap" other applications to run within its environment, as well as Copium, which offers improved collaboration through access to file shares, SharePoint, and other document stores.
The company has 4,500 customers, including many in the Global 2000, with a number of legal and financial companies. VP of Products and Markets Dimitri Volkmann said Good is building an ecosystem of partners whose applications run within the Good environment, such as Good Reader, iAnnotate and Roambi, with 30 or 40 more in the pipeline. It also offers both an SDK, which internal developers can use on mobile applications they will compile, as well as app wrapping from AppCentral and an enterprise app store.
He explained that Good believes in the container approach, with a larger focus on the user interface and on rich collaboration solutions. Virtualization solutions won't work in environments that really want BYOD because they don't work on the Apple platform or on all of the Android implementations.
MobileIron has been another traditional MDM vendor, which initially focused on managing iOS devices with features such as enabling selective wipes and privacy policies. It has since broadened support considerably and recently added Mac OS support. The company now has 3,000 customers, 70 percent of which have BYOD policies. VP of strategy Ojas Rege noted that there is no one way to do BYOD, so the company has been focused in part on toolkits that help individual firms create the privacy policies and rules that are appropriate for it.
The company's next step, he said, is to focus on identity and trust because there is a difference between identifying the user and identifying the device. This will allow different actions depending on rights. For instance, if someone is trying to access data, depending on who and where they are, or what kind of data, you might notify administrators, block access, or wipe the enterprise data on the device.
Rege said there is no perimeter anymore, so instead, the company is building a secure tunnel from the device to the organization. The company has methods to securely distribute enterprise apps, with an SDK and app wrapper to protect data on the device. For data in motion, the company offers a MobileIron Sentry appliance that provides a secure tunnel to email, access control, and a secure tunnel to applications and documents, while still using an Active Sync proxy for email. And most recently, MobileIron announced "Docs@Work," which provides a secure way to view and manage documents. In addition, Rege said the firm is working on secure Web browsing.
Ahmed Datoo, chief marketing officer of Zenprise, said the first generation of MDM was focused on managing the device, but now the focus is on managing the data and applications on the device.
He said Zenprise is the first to market with secure file delivery and is now focused on deploying line-of-business applications through its enterprise app catalog. Features include integrating with active directory for real-time updates. The company has 1,500 customers, focused on medium to large customers.
One area Datoo talked about was "geo-fencing," so that if mobile devices are used in retail and health care solutions, they will only run specific applications and will cease working (with the data wiped) if it moves out of that area.
The Future of BYOD
Of course, there are many other solutions out there as well. Boxtone has a broader enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution it says can manage not only devices, but also applications and operations, with a focus on cost management as well as security. It claims to have over 450 customers managing 1.3 million devices. Research in Motion's BlackBerry is still a fixture in many organizations, with a wealth of security features. Its BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, promises to manage both BlackBerry devices and iOS and Android ones. The company has talked about a feature called BlackBerry balance to split personal and business use on its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform. Citrix has its well-regarded Citrix Receiver and VMware has its Horizon application manager, for allowing mobile devices access to remote applications and desktops. And there are dozens of other choices that address some aspect of the BYOD marketplace.
In the long run, it seems quite possible that the direction will be to have no enterprise confidential information on employee devices at all, and instead all of that information will be accessed through the Web, using encrypted browsers and connections. That way, instead of protecting the device, security will be focused on the data and on access. Indeed, I do know of a few organizations that are heading in that direction.
But while that concept can potentially be more secure, it also brings with it a number of real drawbacks, including the reality that ubiquitous high-speed broadband wireless connections just aren't here yet, and what is here has real costs. Just as importantly, people like working in native device applications and, in general, HTML5-based Web applications aren't quite as responsive. As much as Google believes in the concept of Web applications, it makes sure there's a Gmail app front and center on all its Android phones. Indeed, there's continuing demand for smarter, more functional mobile device applications.
So organizations are likely to want some form of mobile device management for some time to come. It seems more likely that traditional desktop management solutions and mobile device management solutions will come closer together over time. For instance, I like the idea of having one tool that will manage not only iOS and Android devices, but Macs and BYOD Windows PCs as well.
Then there's the question of approach. Full virtualization—where your phone really has two personas, neither of which can interact with the other—does seem to offer the most security, but it's also the least convenient. Good and Enterproid both make a case that having their own mail, contact, and calendar applications allows for more security. On the other hand, I certainly have heard push-back from users who expect the native app experience, including mail, and as the native security features of all the underlying mobile operating systems are improving, I'd expect that to gain more traction. Even then, though, the concept of containerization still makes sense for the most confidential data and applications.
My guess is the market will get even more complex for a while, and then we'll start to see more consolidation with mobile and desktop management solutions converging, better access control solutions, and more intelligent control of data access based on user roles and information sensitivity.
But just as the PC was inevitable years ago, so is the mobile device today, meaning that just as the MIS leaders of the 1980s had to adjust to PCs, the IT leaders of today will need to adjust to mobile devices and employees using their personal devices. The transition won't happen overnight, but it is happening faster than many CIOS would like to admit.


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Nokia N95 Review
posted by PhoneArena Team / Apr 17, 2007, 4:34 AM
Nokia N95 is the logical heir uniting the previous models in one, making it the top-model in the line for 2007. N95 combines the positive features of a few top-models and it is a multi-functional device with standard size. For its design, the slider form-factor of the N80 has been borrowed along with with some features of the N73. The camcorder offers the same capabilities as the one in N93 and the camera is again with Carl Zeiss optics, but this time with the enviable 5-megapixels. But this is not all. In its pocket dimensions the telephone embrace Symbian operating system typical for all Nokia smartphones and among its feature we have no choice but to mention a 3G HSPDA high-speed connection, a Wireless Lan /WiFi/ and a build-in receiver for localization (GPS). Whether N95 is really this unbelievable phone, offering so much in such small package, you will read in the review below.
charger, user manual and a CD with software. Most boxes lack a carrying case, while the Malaysian version has a very nice leather one along in 1GB of microSD memory.
10 Comments
1. Pritam unregistered
camera looks pretty terrible. the autofocus seems to have trouble after a certain range, must not have a good aperature. my a800 takes better pics
posted on Oct 20, 2010, 1:55 AM 0
2. n95fan unregistered
I guess your A800 does not have a phone in it?
posted on Apr 20, 2007, 7:21 AM 0
3. Haroharo unregistered
what a joke! if you think an a800 takes better pictures then maybe you should take an eyesight test. The only major flaw with the N95s camera is the magenta tint and oversharpened detail. These can be fixed by firmware updates.
posted on Apr 20, 2007, 7:24 AM 0
5. Dacapo unregistered
N95 definitely the best of the best. The device got everything that a normal person to a hightech junkies wants; wifi + flawless internet browser, infrared+bluetooth connection, high-end camera, Mp3 & multimedia player, 3G connection & GPS reciever... Its only drawback for most people (including me) is the pocket-emptying price..!
posted on Apr 29, 2007, 9:56 PM 0
6. unregistered
about 1/3 of these are coming back faulty, can be anything from battery life, software faults, loose slides or even buttons not working. on the ones that do work the battery life makes the N80 look good. oh and the GPS is rubbish.
posted on May 20, 2007, 5:21 PM 0
7. MSANTOS unregistered
N95 nokia for my opinion is not as good as N73 because my N95 always hang and it needs to charged everyday. The service center here in Riyadh told me that they always repair N95 because of its battery life and ic connection. Please Nokia company, do action now and see the problems.
posted on Jun 02, 2007, 2:45 AM 0
8. Fernando unregistered
who ever took those pics with N95 dont know how to take pics. Horrible.
posted on Jun 10, 2007, 9:25 PM 0
9. folen_angel unregistered
I am a former N80 owner and I've got nokia n95 for more than a week now, and i really love its performance, from the 5 megapixel camera, stereo speakers, GPS, WiFi, UMTS, dvd quality video, largest nokia screen( though lower resolution compared to N90 and N80 )etc... It's battery is lasting for about a day and a half under rigorous usage, and even longer when it is just in its standby mode. every possible connection is now a reality- from stereo speakers, to your laptop/desktop, and now, to your TV. Can anyone handle that? So stop comparing it to k800, N73 or even N93i because it's far better. To those people criticizing the phone, maybe the phone is too good or too expensive for you. But if the money is not an issue, Nokia N95 is a clear choice or rather the perfect mobile phone for you!
posted on Jun 12, 2007, 9:45 AM 0
10. Laurio Vincent unregistered
Nokia N95 Review I've been using the N95 for a few days now. This is one hell of a cell phone. I did read a few reviews before buying the N95, obviously since it costs so damn much. A lot of people complained about the poor battery life and the slider being a bit wobbly. My friend's got an N95 and I got the N95, but both the phones have very firm sliders, even when closed, unlike the Nokia 6270 which does wobble a bit when the slider is closed. About the battery life, i think it is not as bad as others say it is. On my 1st day, the use obviously being pretty heavy since you try all the stuff in the handset, the battery lasted about a day. I think the screen brightness has something to do with it. If you reduce the screen brightness a bit, like I did, the battery will work longer. PRO'S: Excellent Camera, pretty good pics even in low light conditions. Normally with my N70, pics taken in low light environments have a lot of purple spots all over it. But these purple spots are almost invisible with the N95 in similar conditions. The cam has several options to enhance picture quality before take the picture itself. You can adjust the sharpness, contrast, light exposure, and many more and create a user defined profile for the cam. The video quality is excellent, but take a awesome amount of memory at highest settings. Good thing though, you can set you cam to take pics at 5MP, 3MP, 2MP, 0.8MP and 0.3MP and videos in VGA at 30 fps or 15fps, QVGA at 30 fps or 15fps, and QCIF at 15fps(3gp format). The screen in nice and big with a very clear and colourful display. However you may want to reduce the screen brightness a bit and keep the backlight timeout to about 15 secs if you want to increase the battery life. You can push it to the max if you don't care about battery life. The 2 loud speakers give an excellent sound output, much better and louder than my N70. The music player too has several options like equaliser, graphic visualizations, stereo widening, bass enhancer, etc. The earphones supplied give a good sound output but the bass effect is not as good as I expected it. However that's not a problem since you can plug in your personal earphones of any make or model that have a 3.5mm pin and listen to music the way you like it. The remote on the earphone adaptor looks very sleek too. I don't really need the GPS facility in the phone and have not been able to try it out as not supported by my network currently and i haven't visited the areas supporting wi-fi either. It's a plus point for those who need it though. The software response is pretty fast, compared to my N70 which is quite slow. It has a bearable time lag while opening applications, gallery, etc. It's too early to judge it right now since my 1GB card is only about 400mb full. The phone is loaded up with a lot of extra softwares which will spice up your cell. One impressive feature included in the web browser is multi-window option which i didn't have in my N70. This makes surfing a lot more fun and convenient. One thing I was very happy about is that the phone came with a 1GB card with it, even though the Nokia-Asia website shows the in-box having only a 128mb card(which i was very disappointed to hear at first). it also comes with a very classy leather cover, which is normally not included in in-box accessories. A car charger would have been great, if included[I know I'm asking for too much now:-)] Cons: Battery life, though not too big an issue, could have been better. Application Manager takes quite long to open, even though i hardly put any external softwares. The good thing is that software can be uninstalled from the main menu itself. Everytime i restart my phone, i don't get delivery reports for the first 10-15 minutes when i send text messages even though the settings show delivery reports ON. I have to wait about 15 minutes after starting it and it works after that automatically. The body of the handset looks a bit poor in quality considering the cost of the phone. Lets see how long it can go. If you put external themes that slows the cell a bit, the softwares(NOT THE PHONE) hang sometimes. Exiting it by holding the Menu key down and pressing the cancel button (c) takes very long. Very Pricey, but worth every buck you pay. Overall, in my opinion, if you got the cash...go for it!!!
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A Los Angeles Times database of so-called "perversion files" documenting alleged sexual abuse by Boy Scouts of America troop leaders have expanded to include more information on a handful of cases tied to the tri-city region.
The files were obtained as a result of lawsuits against the Boy Scouts by alleged abuse victims or by media organizations.
The Times' database provides a thorough picture of the widespread abuse allegations and how they were handled within the Boy Scouts of America between 1947 and January 2005, and reveals many incidents in which the organization failed to report the incidents to law enforcement officials in lieu of cover ups and quiet resignations.
The documents were kept internally by the organization to prevent suspected molesters from rejoining the program.
But in the five cases released with local ties — two in Glendale, one in Pasadena and two in La Crescenta — the documents claim that the accused troop leaders were either under investigation by police or had already been convicted.
The database also revealed an abuse report filed in Burbank in 1958 and a third in Glendale in 1996, but no further details were available.
The files show the Boy Scouts opened an investigation in 1987 into Donald Rosen, a then-50-year-old West Hollywood man and Scout Master for a Pasadena Boy Scout troop who was accused of fondling "nearly all the boys in his troop."
In a letter dated Aug. 16, 1987, Catholic Chaplin Rudy Vallin described conversations with Scouts and assistant troop leaders about the alleged abuse.
"I spoke to two assistant Scoutmasters who said to each other in my presence, 'Don has got to learn to keep his hands to himself. This time he did it to the wrong kid, and that will end up getting him blackballed from Scouting,'" Vallin wrote.
Rosen was axed from the organization on Oct. 23, 1987, according to a letter by then-San Gabriel Valley Boy Scouts Council President John Lewis.
While the documents claim the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was investigating Rosen, there's no evidence that charges were filed, according to county Superior Court records.
Rosen had a run-in with law enforcement seven years earlier, when he was charged with committing a lewd act on a child, a Los Angeles County Superior Court spokeswoman said. Details on the charge were not immediately available.
In 1990, Jeffrey Mumford, a Glendale resident and computer programmer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was kicked out of the Scouting program after being charged with child sexual abuse the year before. Court records show the charges were later dismissed or not prosecuted.
Donald Kennaday, a 41-year-old refrigerator repairman and child photographer at the time, was ousted from the Scouts by the Verdugo Hills Council in 1986 after the organization discovered information of a conviction in Wyoming more than 25 years before, according to the documents.
No further information on the conviction was available since it occurred when he was a minor, according to the Scouting records.
The records claim that police at the time were investigating Kennaday, but court records show no charges were filed.
A file was also opened in 1984 for Mark Richard Gardner, who was a 39-year-old Glendale electronic engineer at the time.
In 2007, Gardner was convicted of seven counts of child sexual abuse in what appear to be unrelated incidents. Gardner has since been serving a 20-year sentence in California state prison.
He had been expelled from the program for similar allegations in 1984, according to his file.
Gardner is the only one of the five men listed in the Scout files who registered as a sex offender in California, records show.
An investigation into a 43-year-old bus driver, Charles Walker, was launched in 1974, though few details were included. Walker served on the Cub Committee for a La Crescenta troop for roughly six years.
"All I can offer is a statement made over the telephone by a Glendale Police Captain, who verified that this man should certainly be restricted from any contact with boys," a Verdugo Hills Council executive wrote, about Walker, to the organization's registration manager in 1975. "I can further verify that this man's wife is getting a divorce because of his involvement with [name redacted]."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. energy exploration companies leading a domestic oil boom increasingly are using stock options to find and maintain employees, evoking comparisons to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.
Some compensation experts and investment analysts worry that employees of small- and medium-sized firms that are still searching for sizeable profits could be lulled by a false sense of financial security.
Options and stock awards can give cash-poor companies a powerful retention tool and foster employee loyalty, but they can also dilute earnings and employees often have to wait years to cash in options. Volatile oil and natural gas prices add an extra layer of risk - and potential reward.
"There's a lot of people in Silicon Valley who became millionaires because they were in the right place at the right time and worked for a company that handed out stock options," said Paul Hodgson of BHJ Partners, a governance consultancy.
"The fracking industry at the moment is in a similar place, almost like a gold rush," he said, referring to hydraulic fracturing, the technology to unlock oil and gas deposits, which has revitalized U.S. production.
Energy XXI Ltd , an eight-year-old company which drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana, gives all 271 workers - from secretaries to roughnecks - stock or options three times a year, based on salary and seniority. Energy XXI's stock price has risen 51 percent in the past six months as its proven reserves jumped.
"This is me being able to retire when I want to retire," said Melissa Castro, who analyzes oil well data for the Houston-based company. "It's definitely the cherry on top of my salary."
Energy XXI puts stock options worth roughly 15 percent of Castro's salary into her retirement account at the end of every year, in addition to matching her own cash contributions, up to 6 percent of her salary. She also gets two stock bonuses during the year, one worth roughly 5 percent to 10 percent of her salary, and another worth less, depending on several variables.
Six-figure salaries tend to be the norm for many professionals in the industry.
Smaller and mid-tier exploration and production (E&P;) companies that need to preserve cash for seismic studies, drilling and other expenditures, have been particularly active with options, according to a 2013 survey by Mercer, a benefits advisor and subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos .
Roughly 88 percent of E&P; engineers across the industry are eligible for some type of long-term incentive award, typically restricted stock or options, the Mercer study found.
Though that is up just five percentage points from Mercer's earliest study in 2010, the awards became an integral part of compensation packages when the fracking boom took off in 2008, said Ann Manal, a partner in the Houston office of Mercer.
Before the boom, they weren't typical industry practice, she added.
The surging domestic energy sector will turn the United States, a country long criticized for its heavy reliance on foreign suppliers, into the world's top oil and gas producer this year, the U.S. Energy Information Agency says.
For companies scrambling to find and keep good employees, stock options are a key tool.
"It's a type of golden handcuff," said Mike Reger, chief executive of Northern Oil & Gas Inc , which puts vesting restrictions on stock grants to its 23 employees to keep rivals from poaching talent.
Abraxas Petroleum Corp , Apache Corp , W&T; Offshore Inc , Linn Energy LLC and dozens of other companies also award options or stock to all employees.
Some 81 energy companies have launched initial public offerings since 2007 as investors steer funds to companies leading the American energy boom. That's 9 percent of all U.S. IPOs in that timeframe, according to Thomson Reuters data, and a 60 percent increase from 2000 to 2006.
Odessa, Texas, which sits near some of the largest oil projects in the nation, ranked first among U.S. cities in 2011 for personal income growth, with a rise of 11.9 percent, according to data published this June by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Options give employees the ability to buy stock at a predetermined price. Restricted stock must be held for a period of time, typically four years in the energy industry.
David Kudla, an investment advisor at Mainstay Capital Management, advises employees to not let their company's stock become an outsized part of their portfolio, typically no more than 10 percent.
"If you rely on your company's stock or options, you really are putting all your eggs in one basket," he said.
By definition, many companies that explore for oil and gas are speculative bets. While many do develop lucrative projects, some strike out and collapse, leaving shares and options worthless.
The energy industry acutely remembers Enron, the energy giant that famously contributed company shares to retirement accounts and encouraged its employees to hoard its stock before succumbing to bankruptcy protection in 2001.
Halcón Resources Corp , which drills for oil in several U.S. shale fields, spent $6.7 million on its stock and options program for employees in 2012, an 86 percent increase from 2011.
But company shares fell more than 60 percent over that period, in part because Halcón was also selling new stock to investors, increasing the number of traded shares roughly six times.
Halcón CEO Floyd Wilson stands behind the practice, viewing stock and option awards as a way to husband cash for drilling and as a motivational tool for the 435 workers to achieve his goal of growing the company and selling it within a few years.
"All of our employees can get in on the money," he said. "Everyone we hire knows we have a limited shelf life."
Lynn Peterson, CEO of Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp , which operates primarily in North Dakota's Bakken shale formation, also backs rewarding employees with stock.
"It's been a great tool to retain people," he said. Kodiak's stock has jumped 77 percent in the past six months on rising production.
While the promise of riches for all echoes dot-com companies of the late 1990s boom, energy firms say their own rise is assured by global demand for their product, especially exports to emerging markets.
"This is a boom time for the energy industry because of technological innovation," said Kudla, the investment advisor, waving away comparisons to dot-bombs like now-defunct Pets.com.
"We're not talking about shipping 50 pounds of dog food ordered on the Internet," he said.
(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Terry Wade, Peter Henderson and Tim Dobbyn)


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Wake Forest Tops ETSU 76-73
AP Sports Writer
Tiny Tim Smith and East Tennessee State nearly won one for the little guys. Josh Howard and his athletic Wake Forest teammates made sure bigger was barely better.
Howard, the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, made two key free throws and finished with 12 points Friday to help the second-seeded Demon Deacons survive a major scare from No. 15 ETSU in a 76-73 victory.
Wake Forest (25-5) will play Auburn, a 65-63 overtime winner over Saint Joseph's, in the second round of the East Regional on Sunday.
The Buccaneers (20-11) _ only the second-best Bucs here in Tampa _ will go home with a loss in their first tournament appearance in 11 years, but the consolation that they, not Wake Forest, were the real show.
With his 22-point performance and frenetic floor game, Smith got most of the credit for ETSU's scintillating effort. During an unbelievable 65-second stretch late in the game, he almost took the Bucs to the second round on his own.
The 5-foot-9 freshman made a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws to cut a 72-64 deficit to three with 47 seconds left. On the ensuing inbounds pass, he practically dove in front of a Wake Forest player for the steal, then after his teammates rebounded two misses, he hit a 3-pointer from the left side to tie the game.
After Howard made two free throws with 21 seconds to go, ETSU's Zakee Wadood (20 points, 14 rebounds) had a chance to tie it. But Wake Forest called timeout to ice him, and Wadood missed the second of two free throws.
Justin Gray made one of two free throws for a 75-73 lead with 10.9 seconds left, then Smith drove to the left corner and launched a 3-pointer that could have won it.
It found nothing but air, however, and alas, a great game ended and the Bucs failed to become just the fifth No. 15 seed to pull a first-round upset since the field was expanded in 1985.
Freshman center Eric Williams led the Demon Deacons with 20 points _ 17 in the first half. He fouled out with 3:18 remaining and left the game to Howard, Gray, Jamaal Levy and Taron Downey, all of whom were clutch down the stretch.
Downey, who scored 17 points, hit a pair of 3-pointers to put the Demon Deacons ahead 72-64 after Smith triggered a 7-0 run that tied it at 64 with 4:11 left.
Levy (14 points) had a sweet put-back dunk for a 46-39 lead early in the second half, but as good as it was it told more about ETSU than Wake.
Because while Levy was screaming after the dunk, Smith was sprinting downcourt for an easy layup that cut the deficit back to five.
In all, Smith was an annoying, persistent pest _ as fun to watch as he was difficult to defend. Ceaselessly pounding that dribble, driving the lane and generally driving the Deacons crazy, he played all 40 minutes. He shot only 9-for-23 and had three assists with five turnovers, but while his stat line might not have looked impressive, his style of play sure did.
He kept the Demon Deacons guessing and helped his coach, Ed DeChellis, win the Xs and Os battle against his good friend, Skip Prosser of Wake Forest.
In the end, however, ETSU of the Southern Conference couldn't get past the ACC's regular-season champions. In fact, the Bucs tied the game three times _ including after Smith's late flurry _ but not once did they take the lead.


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