Interactive Week has an article about Microsoft’s subversion of the Kerberos standard in Windows 2000. Microsoft took an open standard and added some proprietary crap to it so it wouldn’t work with existing implementations of the standard, and is now reluctant to document the proprietary crap that they added. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
I’m linking to this article about email monitoring only because my friend Todd is quoted in it. There’s no good reason to use your employer’s email system for personal messages these days. Get a free email account and use that. (I use ssh to connect to my Web hosting provider, and read my email there, for what it’s worth.) The article doesn’t address the real problem plaguing email systems – Powerpoint presentations sent around as attachments.
Here’s a good example of how the rich get richer. Corporations are using tax shelters to save big bucks on taxes. Despite the fact that the economy is growing like mad and companies are making money hand over fist, corporate tax receipts were actually down 2% last year. Comparatively speaking, tax receipts from individuals were up 6%.