Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil. Way back when I was an industry analyst I remember fighting the battle against universitites about so called academic freedom and firewalls. The argument ran that places of higher learning should not erect barriers that would limit access to information. That laughable theory applied to IT security has long since been discredited but the horrifying aspect was that the idea of no-firewalls was also present in major US government agencies such as the US Geological Survey, which is part of the...