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Traditional desktop security would improve beyond recognition if applications could be controlled to a point where they cannot access any part of the system that they do not need to, according to Alcy Infinity, co-founder of Timesavers International.
At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krsti, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.
For the second year in a row, Microsoft's Q&A session at AusCERT has been well worth attending -- but for the wrong reasons.
It looks like AusCERT and GovCERT have worked out their issues and are no longer stepping on each others' toes.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
If you didn't make it to AusCERT 2007, which is the largest security conference in Australia, then let ZDNet Australia's Matthew Oxley and Munir Kotadia give you a taste of what you missed.
Google launched Google Gears at it's Developer Day in Sydney on Thursday. Google Gears is an open source platform that could allow Web applications -- such as Gmail and YouTube -- to be used offline. Google Australia's director of engineering Alan Noble spoke to ZDNet Australia about the development.
At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstic, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.
At an afternoon event in San Francisco on May 24, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and founder, explains the social-networking site's plans to expand services and increase information-sharing. Facebook members will get automated servces ot share everything from sports picks to tunes.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km.
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