Scott Bradner

It has been an interesting few weeks for anyone who is a fan of freedom.

A few months ago, I put a new 10GB disk drive in my Macintosh 2400 laptop. That expanded the original capacity of the computer to the point where I could carry the basic business data for much of Harvard wherever I went -- if I had a mind to do that and if the university was dumb enough to let me do it. Sounds unlikely, but all too many businesses let their travelling executives do things that are just about that dumb.

Just about a year ago, I wrote about some of the problems road warriors experience. Some of the problems I mentioned then seem to be getting better, but not all of them.

 

Intel Corp. claimed it was just trying to enable electronic commerce. But what the company did was only marginally useful for e-commerce, scared the bejeezus out of privacy advocates, and got Intel headlined dead centre at the top of The New York Times