Columnist’s corner: Apple’s legion of devout fans might not want to hear it, but Roger Grimes refers to a self-professed Mac enthusiast and security researcher who said how it simple it was to hack both Leopard and iPhones, even going so far as to suggest Apple was falling down on the job. RFID, by the by, is not so difficult to hack either, Grimes writes in Thoughts on Black Hat. Storage: As its name suggests, RocketStream fuels faster file transfers. And it could fill a gap “for customers with deep pockets and needs that go beyond simple file transfers,” Mario Apicella explains. “Even on my LAN where the latency delay is very low, RocketStream moved files between two Windows XP machines much faster than Windows Explorer — nearly twice the speed.” Security: Although the little-known Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems, aka FiXs, is already in pilot mode at a handful of government agencies, the initiative’s head “does not see a national or international identity management implementation as a near-term reality,” reports Maggie Biggs in National ID? How about a global ID? At issue is that fact that “policy and implementation agreements would be needed among federal, state, and local government agencies as well as corporate governance boards, civil libertarians, foreign governments, and the population at large.” Green IT: Google says that the energy issue is not black and white and, in response to the search site Blackle, maintains that the white background on its homepage does not consume more energy than a black one would. Others claim black has energy-saving potential. Security