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Y’know, there is already a perfectly good email authentication technology. In the form of PGP and GnuPG. They’re easy to use and Microsoft has never touched them. Better yet, GnuPG is open source freeware.

Micro$oft’$ email auth thing [...]

This is just a bad idea. I wouldn’t trust the UN to deliver milk money, let alone control the internet.

Tech Politics Podcast: Time to trust the U.N. with the Internet?
A U.N.-sponsored conclave gets underway next week to decide several big cyberissues–not the least being who should control the Internet.

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Crypto products may need work to both make them more ‘adoptable’ by new users and educate potential users about how truely simple to use it can be, but I personally have a hard time trusting a Microsoft solution.

At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say
Government controls held back cryptography in the past, but today usability [...]

Hrm.. I seem to recall that I expected this thing to be hacked soon. I sure hope I wrote that down someplace, cause it was right.

Security Firm Bypasses Patch Guard

filenavigator writes, “This week the security firm Authentium found a workaround for Patch Guard, the security feature Microsoft has embedded into the 64-bit [...]

Why is it that things like THIS are never featured on the evening news? Could it have anything to do with powers that be really not wanting news like this to be widely known?

I think that’s the most likely answer.

Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law

An anonymous reader writes to point us to an [...]