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US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
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