At a recent dinner, I found myself seated next to Guido van Rossum. While Guido is best known as the author of the Python programming language, I found his views on the open source software movement and the role of women in the movement very enlightening! …

The general public is now aware of something that we network plumbers have known for years: in many respects, the Internet is robust, but security is fragile. The Heartbleed SSL problem is estimated to cost millions of dollars. No one knows for sure when the next serious bug will show up and its ultimate price …

Last night’s Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group “Meetup” featured Kerry Johnson of QNX. This was a very informative talk and lively interactive session. Kerry shared his observations on the challenges of bringing consumer technology (think iPhone, Android, etc. and their associated apps and user interfaces) into the automotive environment …

As both the CTO of IWL and an attorney, the recent report of the SSL failure in the iOS code concerns me, but not for the reasons in the tech press. This incident once again raises the question of why software seems immune from the laws of liability that apply to other kinds of products? …

A subset of the Maxwell Pro TCP/IP tests were run against the most widely installed desktop Operating System with all known operating system updates applied as of October 1, 2013. The Major Operating System is listed in the Phase 2 Core Protocols IPv6 Ready Logo Program (a popular program to assure that IPv6 implementation will work correctly in the field). A summary of the results follows …