VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week.
It started as a small rebellion--a warning shot fired at the Windows monopoly by independent-minded programmers. But the open-source movement traditionally associated with the happy penguin and the pierced, tattooed crowd is increasingly moving into the enterprise, mingling peacefully with commercial and proprietary code.
If the Wicked Witch of the West were a government regulator among the cryptographers here, she'd be melting into a pool of water right about now
Security Dynamics Technologies Inc. is taking on the name of its subsidiary. This morning, Security Dynamics announced it is changing its name to RSA Security Inc., assuming the well-known letters of its cryptography-specialized subsidiary RSA Data Security Inc. Both business units -- the parent, which specializes in remote-access security, and the subsidiary best-known for its namesake public key cryptographic algorithm -- will now operate under the single name.
The United Nations, stung by criticism over a suggestion in a recent report, said they won't call for a "bit tax" on the Internet.
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