Dropsafe

History is wonderful… See our definition with hyperlinks at http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci837181,00.html The Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) is a standard for encrypted communications that was approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1994 and is better known by the name of an implementation called the Clipper chip. The significant feature of EES is its so-called key

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from http://www.ntk.net/ Lot of talk this week about Microsoft’s new bluesky project: In the softest of previews in Newsweek, Steven Levy banged on about PALLADIUM, alluding to the sacred (but as it turns out, a bit horse-blind) guardian of Troy. British readers will know the term better as the fancy West End theatre that spawned

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bwahahahahahahahaha… Big noises at odds over the sound of silence By David Lister Media and Culture Editor 21 June 2002 ‘The Sound of Silence’ may have prompted engaging harmonies from Simon and Garfunkel – but a more literal appreciation of the absence of noise has prompted one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern

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the iMac has landed.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2069000/2069747.stm Record makers could win the right to carry out hack attacks on music sharing services if a US proposal becomes law. Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials. If his idea becomes law,

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this appeals to me: http://www.newshounds.com/comics/nh20020614.gif (see http://www.newshounds.com/d/20020610.html and sequence)

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Weird. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25897.html Over the years, Apple has become accustomed to bad news. Now it gets the flutters when there’s good news. And so, the company has sacked its PR manager in Australia after she mistakenly issued a good news press release. The trouble started when Myrna van Pelt, a four-year Apple veteran in the Australian

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What are the storage security threats and issues? What are the current and emerging network storage security countermeasures? What security considerations address which storage applications? What steps can organizations take to protect their networked storage infrastructures investments? And most importantly, how can security be a network storage enabler? http://www.wwpi.com/lead_stories/Glass_house.html

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm “Tech managers targeted by cyber criminals” The head of the UK’s cyber police unit has warned that tech managers could become victims of kidnappers and organised crime. Comment from a friend of mine: “as if users weren’t bad enough.”

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http://www.radio.gov.uk/publication/ra_info/ra365.htm

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bwahahahahahaha… no doubt someone will discover “Crack” and try doing the same to me in the near future, again… http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2064000/2064388.stm

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urgh. http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208505

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