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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* How Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth
* The Recording Industry's Failed Digital Strategy
* Some Hope During Registerfly's Meltdown
* Possible Cure For Autism
* Listing of Vista Drivers
* UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
* MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police
* March To Be Month of PHP Bugs
* UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs
* AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested
* 12 Crackpot Ideas That Could Transform Tech
* Viacom Turns to Joost, Spurns YouTube
* U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch
* Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb
* Don't Believe What You See at the Movies
* Who Pays For Credit Card Breaches?
* Longhorn Server Will Stress Virtualization
* iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax
* IT Departments Fear Growing Expertise of Users
* Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use
* Recording Your Entire Life
* Digital Credentials Offer Enhanced Privacy
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| How Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth |
| from the my-customer-dammit dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, @19:21 (Communications) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/2238200 |
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[0]Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone
industry when creating the iPhone by [1]wresting control away from
normally powerful wireless carriers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
>From the article: 'Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the
wireless unit of AT&T Inc., got to see the iPhone before it was
announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone.
Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence
that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other
services... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices"
that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach
consumers. While meeting with Cingular and other wireless operators he
often reminded them of his view, dismissing them as commodities and
telling them that they would never understand the Web and entertainment
industry the way Apple did, a person familiar with the talks says.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/19/2238200
Links:
0. mailto:wsjarticles@wsj.com
1. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117168001288511981-euxzmjNFZTZhA_2z8OBtD6GK900_20070224.html?mod=blogs
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| The Recording Industry's Failed Digital Strategy |
| from the north-winds-of-change dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, @20:28 (Music) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/2340221 |
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An anonymous reader sends us a link to the Toronto Star, where Michael
Geist has a terrific article on [0]how the record labels got the Internet
completely wrong. While somewhat specific to Canada, the article'
arguments are more broadly applicable. The article links together the
misplaced reliance on DRM and the Canadian industry's [1]advocacy for
increasing levies on blank media to demonstrate just how wrong-headed
this strategy has turned out to be.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/19/2340221
Links:
0. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/183137
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/11/2215240&tid=188
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| Some Hope During Registerfly's Meltdown |
| from the back-doors dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, @21:41 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/0024233 |
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[0]hookmeister writes "If you registered your domain at Registerfly.com,
then you should know it may be locked, and you are at the moment
[1]unable to access it through Registerfly's website (video). You may
even be unable to renew your domain because it has expired into a status
known as 'redemption' through no fault of your own. By all accounts there
are just under 2 million domains at risk here. Enom dumped them as a
reseller; their SSL cert has expired; it's a mess. Fortunately the
principals in this are trying to restore order. The external website
registerflies.com, originally crafted as a gripe-zone and forum for
Registerfly users, has gotten inside the ranks of the post-shakup
Registerfly management, made some friends and connections, and is
[2]creating a back-door problem-reporting form that goes directly to
those who can correct a domain problem. The official Registerfly support
ticketing system remains clogged with thousands of unanswered
complaints."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/0024233
Links:
0. http://hd1080i.com/
1. http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=512723016&channel=493148924
2. http://registerflies.com/
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| Possible Cure For Autism |
| from the umbrella-for-the-rainman dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, @22:53 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/2252244 |
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Henry V .009 writes "Scientists in New Jersey are claiming that children
with autism are [0]unable to metabolize key fatty acids that fight
brain-damaging inflammations. They have already developed urine/blood
tests to identify at-risk children. A preventive cure to autism may be as
simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids. Human trials could
start later this year."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/19/2252244
Links:
0. http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-11/117177694297300.xml&coll=1
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| Listing of Vista Drivers |
| from the crib-sheet dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @00:35 (Windows) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/010231 |
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[0]RadarSync writes to plug their page of [1]links to Vista drivers.
Listed are many drivers that Microsoft doesn't have and that aren't
easily found on the manufacturer's sites. For Intel alone, 364 drivers
are currently linked.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/010231
Links:
0. http://www.radarsync.com/
1. http://www.radarsync.com/vista
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| UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition |
| from the no-is-an-answer-too dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @03:29 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/0045227 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Prime Minister Tony Blair has responded
personally via email to 28,000 online petitioners opposing the UK's
planned identity card scheme, and has [0]closed the online petition. The
email reads: 'We live in a world in which people, money and information
are more mobile than ever before. Terrorists and international criminal
gangs increasingly exploit this to move undetected across borders and to
disappear within countries. Terrorists routinely use multiple identities
?€? up to 50 at a time... ID cards which contain biometric recognition
details and which are linked to a National Identity Register will make
this much more difficult.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/0045227
Links:
0. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/
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| MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police |
| from the Pirate-Bay-not-obvious-enough? dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @06:24 (Movies) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/0123250 |
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Several readers let us know about a program in which a US [0]FBI agent
and employees of the MPAA led a seminar for Swedish police officers in
methods of finding and stopping illegal downloading from the Internet.
The writer at zeropaid.com says, "I bet the Swedish people are going to
love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have
a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of
national sovereignty." Reader [1]Oxygen provided a bit of translation
from an article in Swedish on [2]IDG.se: "According to Bertil Ramsell,
responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the
invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their
organization's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the purpose
was to educate students in anti-piracy."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/0123250
Links:
0. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8428/US+trains+new+ELITE+Swedish+anti-piracy+police+force
1. mailto:vextor@gmail.com
2. http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.95946
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| March To Be Month of PHP Bugs |
| from the open-season dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @08:04 (PHP) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/0144218 |
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[0]PHP writes "Stefan Esser is the founder of both the Hardened-PHP
Project and the PHP Security Response Team (which he [1]recently left).
During an interview with SecurityFocus he announced the upcoming [2]Month
of PHP bugs initiative in March." Quoting: "We will disclose different
types of bugs, mainly buffer overflows or double free (/destruction)
vulnerabilities, some only local, but some remotely triggerable...
Additionally there are some trivial bypass vulnerabilities in PHP's own
protection features... As a vulnerability reporter you feel kinda puzzled
how people among the PHP Security Response Team can claim in public that
they do not know about any security vulnerability in PHP, when you
disclosed about 20 holes to them in the two weeks before. At this point
you stop bothering whether anyone considers the disclosure of unreported
vulnerabilities unethical. Additionally a few of the reported bugs have
been known for years among the PHP developers and will most probably
never be fixed. In total we have more than 31 bugs to disclose, and
therefore there will be days when more than one vulnerability will be
disclosed."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/0144218
Links:
0. http://www.php.net/
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/14/0410240&tid=172
2. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/432
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| UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs |
| from the note-quite-enough dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @09:11 (Communications) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1344200 |
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JPMH writes "With the largest density of [0]CCTV cameras in the world,
and an increasing network of [1] automatic number-plate recognition
cameras on main roads, Britain has long been a pioneer for the
surveillance society. Now new official figures reveal that UK agencies
monitored [2]439,000 telephones and email addresses in a 15 month period
between 2005 and 2006. The Interception of Communications Commissioner is
seeking the right for agencies to be allowed to monitor the
communications of Members of Parliament as well, something which has been
forbidden since the 1960s. It must be that it is bringing their numbers
down: on the law of averages they should be monitoring at least 5 of the
MPs."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1344200
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/04/1750246&tid=158
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/2159244&tid=158
2. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1409395.ece
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| AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested |
| from the kicking-the-tires-lighting-the-fires dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @09:46 (AMD) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1353229 |
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Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the
Athlon 64 product line, in the form of [0] a new 3GHz part branded the
Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache
per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is
still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million
transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts.
Unfortunately, in all the [1] benchmarks seen here, it was still unable
to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1353229
Links:
0. http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=929
1. http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=929&cid=1
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| 12 Crackpot Ideas That Could Transform Tech |
| from the circuits-going-places dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @10:20 (Technology) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1356211 |
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[0]InfoWorldMike passed us a link to an entertaining article with a sort
of 'top 12' [1]innovative technologies that could change the world. Some
of the techs include solid-state drives, holographic and phase-change
storage, artificial intelligence, e-books, desktop web apps, and quantum
computing/cryptography. For each of these technologies, expert observers
weigh in on the potentials and pitfalls of these disciplines. Here are
Esther Lim's comments on e-books: "Another issue, besides the prohibitive
cost and cumbersome nature of e-documents, concerns the vast portion of
the contracts that were signed and agreed upon before e-books came onto
the scene ... That raises questions not just in terms of what rights the
user has, but what rights the publisher has vis-??-vis the copyright
holder." We've discussed almost all of these technologies on the site at
one point or another. Which is the most important? Which one do you think
we'll never 'get right'?
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1356211
Links:
0. http://infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/02/19/08FEcrackpot_1.html
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| Viacom Turns to Joost, Spurns YouTube |
| from the google-has-lost-please-turn-to-page-57 dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @10:55 (Television) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1518211 |
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Vincenzo writes "Viacom has [0]signed a deal with Joost that will see
content from MTVI, Comedy Central, and CBS distributed on the new P2P
distribution service. The move comes just two weeks after [1]demanding
YouTube pull over 100,000 videos offline. 'Joost's promise to protect
their copyrights was a major factor in Viacom's decision, and also a
stumbling block in their discussions with YouTube/Google. At the moment
is it quite easy to download and store video content from YouTube, but no
such exploit for Joost is known to exist.' It's also a 'secure'
distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry,
since users can't upload content themselves.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1518211
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070220-8883.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/0119253&tid=217
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| U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch |
| from the reach-out-and-touch dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @11:39 (United States) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1611222 |
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[0]Ontheright writes "The BBC is featuring a story on how the U.S.
copyright lobby is [1]increasingly out of touch with the rest of the
world. The article focuses on a recent report designed to highlight the
inadequacies of IP protection around the world by arguing for a global
expansion of the DMCA and elimination of copyright exceptions. Michael
Geist penned the article, which specifically calls out the United States
for expecting the world at large to adopt its non-standard standards for
copyright law."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1611222
Links:
0. mailto:onthe@rightbox.com
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6379309.stm
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| Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb |
| from the lots-of-quiet-nights-down-there dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @12:23 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1632204 |
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[0]passthecrackpipe writes "The Australian Government is planning on
[1]making the incandescent light bulb a thing of the past. In three years
time, standard light bulbs will no longer be available for sale in the
shops in Australia (expect a roaring grey market) and everybody will be
forced to switch to more energy efficient Fluorescent bulbs. In this move
to try and curb emissions, the incandescent bulb ?€? which converts the
majority of used energy to heat rather then light ?€? will be phased out.
Environmental groups have given this plan a lukewarm reception. They feel
Australia should sign on to the Kyoto protocol first. A similar plan was
created together with Phillips, one of the worlds largest lighting
manufacturers."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1632204
Links:
0. http://passthecrackpipeathotmaildotcom/
1. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21258888-421,00.html
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| Don't Believe What You See at the Movies |
| from the made-the-star-wars-movies-possible dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, @12:58 (Movies) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1715242 |
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[0]MattSparkes writes "Many images you see in a magazine are
Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at
the cinema is [1]any more genuine. In the film 'Blood Diamond', tears
were added to Jennifer Connolly's face after a scene was shot. According
to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors'
expressions. 'Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing;
removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering
gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene
to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying
themselves.' The article mentions the moral qualms digital effects people
have over performing these manipulations, and the steps actors are taking
to protect their digital assets."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1715242
Links:
0. http://thebikeblog.co.uk/
1. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article1403516.ece
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| Who Pays For Credit Card Breaches? |
| from the buck-stops-where? dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @13:36 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1738226 |
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[0]PetManimal writes "A [1]scheme to steal customers' credit and debit
card information at a New England supermarket chain highlights a
little-understood fact about credit card security: [2]Customers still
think that the credit-card companies have to eat fraudulent charges, but
since the [3]PCI DSS standards were adopted, it's actually the
[4]merchant banks and merchants who have to pay up. And, according to the
blogger writing in the latter article, it's a good thing." "The main
reason PCI exists is that there are tens of thousands of merchants who
don't understand the basics of information security and weren't even
taking the very minimum steps to secure their networks and the credit
card information they stored... PCI pushes that burden downstream and
forces merchants to... put in a properly configured firewall, encrypt
sensitive information and maintain a minimum security stance or be fined
by their merchant banks... [T]he credit card companies have taken the
bulk of the financial burden off of themselves and placed it on the
merchants, which is where much of it belongs...'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1738226
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/02/19/stop__shop_reports_credit_data_was_stolen/
2. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5018
3. https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/tech/
4. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5026
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| Longhorn Server Will Stress Virtualization |
| from the bet-it-won't-run-virtual-MacOS dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @14:19 (Microsoft) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/183233 |
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Rob writes in with an article from CBROnline based on an interview with
Microsoft's UK server director. He says the timing of the release of the
next version of Microsoft's server OS, dubbed [0]Longhorn, depends on the
company getting virtualization ready to go. Microsoft has apparently
decided to embed its hypervisor technology into Windows, an OS-centric
approach to virtualization shared by XenSource Inc., its open-source
rival and partner. This contrasts with the model of virtualizing the
hardware layer being pursued by VMWare. The Microsoft spokesman is coy
about a release date for Longhorn, saying it could be earlier or it could
be later (but it should be in 2007).
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/183233
Links:
0. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=5CDDC52B-0ED9-48C1-A083-A38E07FE0E7F
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| iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax |
| from the man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-Hatto dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @14:59 (Music) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1853224 |
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holy_calamity writes "The reliance by iTunes on the CDDB has [0]burst
open a musical fraud in the usually staid world of classical piano.
Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto, who died in June
2006, are identified by the iTunes player as belonging to other
performers. A [1]more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm
has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers. Her husband, who
produced all her albums, says he 'cannot explain' the similarities."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1853224
Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/itunes-fingers-musical-fraud.html
1. http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html
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| IT Departments Fear Growing Expertise of Users |
| from the illusion-of-control dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @15:42 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1924218 |
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[0]flatfilsoc recommends a long article in CIO magazine on [1]users who
know too much and the IT leaders who fear them. Dubbing the universe of
consumer technology the "shadow IT department," the article highlights
the extent to which the boundary between users' workplace and home have
broken down. It notes the increasing clash ?€? familiar to anyone who works
in a company with an IT department ?€? between users' home-grown
productivity boosters and IT's mandate to protect corporate data. The
inherent tendency of the IT department to want to crack down and control
technology that it doesn't supply should be resisted at all costs,
according to CIO. The article outlines strategies for co-existence. It
just might persuade some desperate CIO somewhere not to embark on a
career-limiting path of decreeing against gmail and IM.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1924218
Links:
0. mailto:rymabry@@@socket...net
1. http://www.cio.com/archive/021507/fea_user_mgmt.html?page=1
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| Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use |
| from the et-tu-Allemande? dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @16:24 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1953208 |
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An anonymous reader writes with a NYTimes piece on the [0]early moves by
European governments to implement an EU data retention directive. The
governments of Germany and the Netherlands are initially proposing much
more stringent programs than the EU directive requires. For example, the
German proposal "would essentially prohibit using false information to
create an e-mail account, making the standard Internet practice of
creating accounts with pseudonyms illegal." The Times notes that, early
days as it is, nevertheless some people involved in the issue are
"concerned about a shift in policy in Europe, which has long been a
defender of individuals' privacy rights."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/1953208
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/business/worldbusiness/20privacy.html
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| Recording Your Entire Life |
| from the as-we-may-think dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @17:03 (Data Storage) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2121236 |
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Scientific American has an article on Gordon Bell's 9-year-long
experiment of [0]recording great swaths of his life on digital media. The
idea harks back to an article by Vannevar Bush in the 1940s, which
arguably presaged hypertext and the Web as well. Bell, the father of the
VAX computer and now with Microsoft Research, first published a paper on
his experiment in CACM in 2001. The goal is to record "all of Bell's
communications with other people and machines, as well as the images he
sees, the sounds he hears and the Web sites he visits." Storage
requirements are estimated at a modest 18 GB a year, 1.1 TB over a
60-year span. Not a lot if the article's projection comes to pass ?€? that
we will all be walking around with 1 TB of storage in our portable
devices by 2015. The article is co-authored by Jim Gemmell, who wrote the
software for the [1]MyLifeBits project.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/2121236
Links:
0. http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=CC50D7BF-E7F2-99DF-34DA5FF0B0A22B50
1. http://mylifebits.com/
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| Digital Credentials Offer Enhanced Privacy |
| from the cypherpunks-write-code dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @17:41 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2158240 |
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John Q Random writes "[0]Stefan Brands's company credentica.com announced
their [1]U-Prove library and SDK implementing ID tokens ?€? also known as
[2]digital credentials or private credentials. (Private Credentials are a
cool PKI replacement and anonymous e-cash tech that allows you to prove
certified attributes like age, credit rating, group membership, etc.
without revealing who you are; to allow you to have a digital life
without the digital dossier effect inherent in a central databases.)
Following this announcement, [3]Adam Back [4] announced [5]credlib, an
open source implementation of Brands credentials (and the older more
basic Chaum certificates). These developments relate to recent news from
IBM's Zurich labs on their [6]identity-mixer project (previously
[7]discussed on Slashdot) that is based on the less efficient Jan
Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya credentials."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/2158240
Links:
0. http://www.idcorner.org/
1. http://www.credentica.com/uprove_sdk.html
2. http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw49/brands.html
3. http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/
4. http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/lurker/message/20070216.161439.b5f67637.en.html
5. http://www.cypherspace.org/credlib/
6. http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/
7. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1946242&tid=172
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