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Sunday, March 4, 2007
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Reuters yesterday reported on a recently issued study on future technologies written by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board.
More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance
system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they're looking at the
commercial sector to provide it:
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Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of
17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms,
viruses, Trojan horses and other malware, an Austrian antivirus
researcher reported Wednesday.
The AV Comparatives Web site,
which is maintained by Andreas Cleminti from Innsbruck, Austria, posts
quarterly results of tests that pit the top antivirus products against
a dynamic list of nearly half a million individual pieces of malware.
10:27:26 PM
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Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection. Manequintet writes "Joanna Rutkowska's latest bit of rootkit-related research shatters the myth that hardware-based (PCI cards or FireWire bus) RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to do forensics. At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU. The overall problem, Rutkowska explained, is the design of the system that makes it impossible to reliably read memory from computers. "Maybe we should rethink the design of our computer systems so they they are somehow verifiable," she said." [Slashdot]
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The openLiberty Project, announced in January 2007, is a global open source initiative formed to provide open source developers with tools for integrating the privacy and security services of multivendor Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services into many new identity-based services. In this episode, Jason Rouault discusses openLiberty, and how it could accelerate rollout of Web services, such as presence, contact book, geolocation and calendaring. Rouault also talks about openLiberty's choice of the Apache open source license, how openLiberty could lead to stronger integration between Liberty and Eclipse. why the Liberty form of geolocation is preferable to mobile carriers' typical methods. He also touches on the Liberty People Service, why Liberty's standards work is superior to work at OASIS, and answers Scott's obligatory Microsoft question.
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Many developers, especially small start-ups, are being out-competed
by the big name players in financial terms. Regulations, including the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, are major
challenges for start-ups, because they lack armies of lawyers. In a
humorous and sarcastic presentation, Brad Templeton of EFF considers
the implications of government-mandated wiretapping. While
consumers are concerned about their privacy, they also struggle to keep
their digital identities organized. Johannes Ernst of NetMesh explains
projects that have sprung up to provide unified identification and
authentication for all of our digital communication. LID, OpenID, and
i-names are providing consumers with interoperable digital identities
in a world where new methods of communication and collaboration are
invented daily.
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© Copyright 2007 Paul Hardwick.
Last update: 3/18/07; 10:43:08 PM.
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