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VoIP encryption in a surveillance society

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Those of you that have time to get over to the Stanford campus this Wednesday afternoon (March 7th) should do and listen to “Phil Zimmerman’s” talk on VoIP encryption in a surveillance society. For all of you who can’t make it Stanford will put a video online at their “Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)” site. Phil is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols…

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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network

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Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…

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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes

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Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…

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Video: Google’s Master Plan

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Here’s your daily dose of conspiracy theory. The Video Google’s Master Plan – recently made available on YouTube – is looking into the “underlying” plans that are driving Google’s business. The movie is greatly done and uses excellent visualization techniques. A high quality version together with additional information is available at…

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Video: This thing called the “Internet”

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A great 6 minutes TV documentary from 1993 about the thing called the “Internet”. We haven’t heard the sound of a connecting modem for a long time (3:00)…

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Quote of the day: Internet and Society

The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it – in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes. If you stand in front of a mirror and you don’t like what you see, it does not help to fix the mirror… Google Inc.’s vice president and Turing Award [...]