The Portable Consultant

It never rains, but it pours. Another data loss story has broken closer to home… well, Newfoundland is not that close but too close for comfort: It seems that a “private sector consultant” on a provincial government contract (not unlike The Portable Consultant, in fact) took a government PC home and may have exposed personal [...]

Cost cutting is being blamed for the loss of massive amounts of personal data in this widely-reported UK government data loss case. The Portable Consultant knows of at least one excellent free open source data encryption tool that could have protected the data. How very, very sad for all those concerned. The protection of data [...]

It was the spring of 2006 when The Portable Consultant first posted comments here about Second Life’s virtual world. That was a playground (umm… for adults, you know – like Vegas). Now we can go to work in a similar environment. Sun has recently set up a virtual world for its teleworkers, very much like [...]