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- CLIPPER Chip
- A cryptography chip used by the U.S. government for telephone security that used the SkipJack algorithm and provided for key escrow. The federal government tried to make CLIPPER a...
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- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureA correction(?)[i]and a new proprietory OS called VMS - that eventually became the basis for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0[/i]The first version of Windows NT was 3.5, not 4.0.Also, I think its not correct to say VMS formed the basis of NT. It is true...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Digital Equipment Corp., VMS, data-processing
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Congress and the Feds should clean up their own act
- Congress and the Feds should clean up their own actI agreeI read about this on someone else's blog or off the ZDnet news feed today and I had the same opinions as you about it except the socks thing never crossed my mind though. This is grandstanding to be...
- Tags: Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Peer 2 Peer Software, Peer 2 Peer, U.S. Congress, government, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- Intel's embedded anti-malware could help business and consumer
- Intel's embedded anti-malware could help business and consumerBut What Protects the Anti-Malware Chip?Having a separate backdoor to allow fixes is great...until someone malicious figures out how to get in the backdoor and wipe out the machine. Curious if this approach uses the TCG compliant hardware authentication chipsets which can...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Government, Network technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, chip, Intel Corp., hardware, anti-Malware
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Huge new report recommends a new privacy bureaucracy
- After seven years, the National Research Council has issued a new 400-page report, entitled "Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age," which calls for a European-style bureaucracy and if you think American bureaucracy is bad you really need to spend some time on the continent to monitor governmental...
- Tags: Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Seagate bakes security into hard-disk drive
- Seagate bakes security into hard-disk driveeven Seagate is screwed by M$with their vista faulty design.On more reason to embrace Linux.The biggest problem......is going to be convincing users not to stick a post-it with their password on the bottom of the laptop. Passwords are too easily lost/forgotten/compromised by the masses....
- Tags: Notebooks, security, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive, password
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- Cryptos gather for 30th anniversary of public-key cryptography
- Some of the world's top crypto minds shared the stage at the Thirty Years of Public-Key Cryptography anniversary event at the Computer History Museum last night. NYT reporter John Markoff, who has covered Silicon Valley for 30 years, was master of ceremonies, and started off by saying the no technology...
- Tags: NSA, cryptography, Dan Boneh, Snow
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- IBM bakes security into processors
- IBM bakes security into processorsHow would you update the protection?As we all know, hackers are constantly figuring out ways to get around the latest security features. How would you update the hardware, in this case, to accommodate a hack?What about software?How would encrypted data in RAM affect things like...
- Tags: Homeland security, Hacking, processor, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., security
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- Who are you? Your government wants to know...
- Back in the late 90's Utah proposed putting the driver's license on a smart card. I thought this would be a great place to store state-issued digital keys tied to the identity on the driver's license. The idea was met with considerable resistance by what some have called...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM scheme
- The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM schemeOne more time, it's not just media!!!Come on Joe, the fact is that systems get hacked all the time, millions of people have had their private information stolen recently. My being in control of my "content" (financial, health, personal, etc.) and letting...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blogging, Internet appliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Very few people, digital-rights management, luxury item, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- Gateway trims loss in third quarter
- Gateway trims loss in third quarterYou know what's amazing?I've heard this several times and from several sources over the past few months, and I wish I could dig up some hard numbers, but here it goes:Since the 2001 techtoy bust, Dell and Apple have been the only large PC manufacturers...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Desktops, Outsourcing, Gateway Inc., CADCAM, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-10-28
- Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?
- Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?Guess who Stewart Baker is?Stewart A. Baker was the National Security Agency's top lawyer from 1992-1994, where he promoted the key escrow system for the Clipper chip. EPIC, on the other hand, was a key opponent of the Clipper chip. It's curious that Declan McCullagh quotes...
- Tags: E-mail providers, privacy group, Now Let, e-mail, Google Gmail, Stewart Baker, Declan McCullagh
- Discussion threads 2004-05-04
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