Five networking pet peeves

Now that you can e-mail anyone, anytime, anywhere, run significant applications from within an ordinary Web browser, and run your life from your laptop, it’s worth taking a step back to think about some of the more frustrating networking problems that remain unsolved. Here are the top five things that get me steamed:

  1. Why can’t American cell phones work as well as the rest of the world’s?
  2. Why can’t anyone invent secure e-mail that doesn’t require an advanced degree to use?
  3. Why can’t Microsoft make a more secure Windows desktop?
  4. Why can’t SSL VPNs include NAC?
  5. Why I don’t want to buy another “security appliance.”

You can read the entire story, published this week on Techweb/Information Week.com here.

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