Love the blog as it is. I wouldn't know enough to know what you are missing. I will say I like all the Mac news.

I'm curious to know more about what we average citizens can do to force companies and government agencies to better protect the personal information they store about us on their computers. I realize that might be outside the scope of this blog, If there's some other blog or discussion group out there that fits that niche, though, where is it?

I, too, appreciate the Mac news.

Dude! Youdaman! Keep up the good work. I read your every blog posting. Would that all other computer users do the same. The web would be a safer place.

Brian

Thank you for helping us stay informed about matters that would otherwise have us learn the hard way, or not at all.

I always look forward to your topics.

Happy 3rd!

I'm on F-Secure's press release mailing list and this morning received their quarterly security wrap-up. I find these invaluable. Even for those of us who try to keep up with security issues, it's sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees.

Maybe Security Fix could institute a similar quarterly summary?

Hi Brian

I read your bloggs everytime you post one and from time to time I have posted questions. I have increased my internet and security knowledge alot. Thanks to your advise and q&a many people are protected and every one of my friends and family are using Limited account user. Since then no one is having any problem with there computers.

Thank you very much.

Soraya Hilsinki Finland

I catch your blog on SecurityNewsPortal.com where your insights appear in a couple of places. My day doesn't begin until I read all the latest news. Keep up the good work !

Your blogs are amazing. I don't know
how I would survive without them. Keep
up the great work. Your blogs are the
reason, I keep reading the Washington Post's website.

Thanks to you.

I send your URLs to my non-technical coworkers, friends and family because your articles are so well written.

Congratulations, and thanks for all the good work. Your blog is really a great resource. We're in a world where, to some extent, every PC user needs to be a System Administrator (though NOT to use a sysadmin account!), and I think what you are doing really helps build understanding.

"Heron", above, asked about other blogs that deal with privacy and security issues. Two that I like are Bruce Schneier's (he's CTO of BT Counterpane):

http://www.schneier.com/blog/

and Prof. Ed Felten's (of Princeton):

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

I have only been reading for a few months, now (and contributing once in a while with a comment). I think your blog is terrific...it is one of a very few I bother to check every day.

Congrats on year #3. Keep up the good work.

@Rich Gibbs: Thank you.

"Maybe Security Fix could institute a similar quarterly summary?

Posted by: Karen | March 31, 2008 12:44 PM"

I also think this would be a great idea.

In one of your previous posts you provided a link to Adobe's website which told you which version of flash you had. I unfortunately didn't bookmark it at the time, but since then I have continuously gone back to the post because the link is impossible to find anywhere else.

A quarterly roundup would be a great way of keeping track of these sort of things better.

Also, congrats on year #3!

I have been a reader of Security Fix since practically day one and by and large, I think that all your articles were well-written, informed and technically accurate.

By a rather strange coincidence, the only exception is a post written just a couple of days ago about the 'terror' websites.

For those of us outside the U.S., current U.S. foreign policy so blatantly favours Israel over Palestine that it's a joke. Any action that Palestinians take is regarded as terrorism and any action that Israel takes is a justified response to terrorism. The world is not so black & white.

Do I approve of Hamas & Hezbollah? Absolutely not! I strongly condemn all terrorist acts. However, your post follows the standard line that anything related to the legitimate concerns of the Palestinian people must be terror-related. This is just not helpful and I think you should restrict your posts to strictly technical & security issues rather than straying into the political arena.

And no, as your nice Colin Powell once said, it's not anti-semitic to criticize the actions of the state of Israel!

Please make your RSS feed a full feed, if you can. I have been weeding non-full feeds from my reader; yours has not been weeded (yet) owing to superior content, but if I were just now considering adding it it would not make the cut for new feeds. I realize that this may be beyond your control; if so, please lobby your support staff to permit full feeds.

@Mark -- Thanks for your comment. For the record, that post you reference was meant to point out that many US companies are almost certainly violating US criminal and civil laws against doing business with certain groups overseas. It was also meant to highlight the (possibly by design) legal uncertainty that exists here for ISPs.

I've seen a couple requests for comment lately on your articles, so I thought I'd add my 2 cents. Your best work so far was the in-depth piece on the bot-net operators (Invasion of the Computer Snatchers). I'm sure that took a lot of work and some inside sources, but it's that "real-life" aspect that makes it so intriguing. It's not theory or "potential flaws"...it's reality.

If you could find any more time to write similar articles about hackers/criminals that are exploiting software/people/companies, that would make for an entertaining read. Perhaps something on identity fraud? I saw a recent piece in the Washington Post on identity fraud, but it didn't include of lot of the details. Readers want to know exactly how people are getting duped with stolen identities, some of the tricks of the trade, what to watch out for, etc.

Keep up the good work, and happy belated blog birthday.

Have a Happy Third, and never, ever, admit you were once a "Terrible Two".

Many thanks, Brian, for helping us keep informed and safe these three years. You do a great job of writing about computer security issues without making it overly geeky. Keep it up!

@Bk: Congrats. And it is we who should thank you.

Hope your efforts are as rewarding to you as they've been to me and what appears to be many of us. Hope as well that your management is aware as I of the benefit of your efforts.........cheers and many more years of success.