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IBM pledge: Not only does Notes/Domino live, there’s no end in sight

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Having begun my time here covering the late 1990s email/collaboration battles between Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, and, yes, Novell GroupWise, it’s interesting to see IBM, which bought Lotus in 1995, pledging to support Domino and Notes for, well, an open-ended long period of time.

Not surprising, though.    

In a blog post published yesterday, Ed Brill, vice president of product management and design for IBM Collaboration Solutions, laid out the company’s current thinking:

“Notes/Domino 9.0 shipped in 2013, and IBM’s normal five-year support model meant that mainstream support could have ended in 2018. However, we know how important these products are to your business, and we are continuing to invest in new functionality. For IBM Notes/Domino 9.0, we have announced that product support will be extended through at least 2021, and extended support through at least 2024. There is no end of life planned for Notes and Domino, and we will continue to update the timeline for support as appropriate based on future releases and market requirements.”

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Watching a ‘Swatting’ slowly unfold within sight of the Boston Marathon starting line

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Approaching the center of town to pick up pizza last night, I saw a half-dozen police vehicles blocking off Main Street. I pulled into a parking lot both to figure out how to get to our dinner and to find out what was going on.

The instant a bystander told me what he had heard, I knew this police operation was almost certainly the result of a hoax known as Swatting, which starts with a fake 911 call reporting a non-existent life-threatening situation. It’s become an epidemic of late, targeting celebrities and online gamers, in particular.

While police had no choice but to take the threat seriously – more on that in a minute — I was confident this was a hoax for two reasons: I have been reporting on the topic recently and the rumored details of the 911 call seemed far-fetched: a man claimed to be holed up in the closed Hopkinton Public Library with two hostages and a bomb. (Not only did I believe this was a Swatting, I said it out loud, so the editor of a local news site called HopNews decided I was worth interviewing.)

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Network World Paul McNamara

No fix in sight for ​Android Wi-Fi Direct vulnerability – ZDNet

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No fix in sight for ​Android Wi-Fi Direct vulnerability
ZDNet
Some Android security bugs Google won't fix because it can lead to other difficulties, and some bugs it's in no rush to fix because it deems them not serious enough to warrant a speedy patch. A vulnerability in the latter camp has emerged this week.

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Hiding in plain sight: evidence that NSA isn’t wrecking internet security – Washington Post

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Hiding in plain sight: evidence that NSA isn't wrecking internet security
Washington Post
A careful reading of the actual study, though, suggests that there's been more than a little hype in the claim that NSA has somehow made us all less safe by breaking internet security standards. I recognize that this is a technical paper, and that I'm …

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