...you should cut off existing connections .

Recently I was out of town in a 'gambling' area, and the hotel had internet but wanted $10 and change per day for access.  This is of course ridiculous, in particular considering the horrible connection speed they provided.

However as per usual, I setup a tunnel to an outside server and proxied everything through a highly secure SSH2 tunnel.  I wasn't really surprised when the one day I paid for expired and my tunnel stayed open.  

Seems whatever fly-by-night third party they allowed to setup.. doesn't have a clue.

Seems that the mainstream media is finally bothering to report on the legitimate security problems with contactless RFID credit/debit cards.

I was looking for a new banking institution (due to Charter One playing games with fees).  During my investigation of Credit Unions I found that most (if not all) use outside companies to handle their on-line banking solutions.  One of these companies is R.C. Olmstead.

Seems things keep changing and getting more and more wishy washy with the PCI Council.  There is still not way to get any straight answers, and one of my clients systems has been sitting in their queue for approval nearly a year now.

 If you're going to try and improve security, and then get an industry to force your plans on everbody else.. You'd damn well better be ready to follow up.