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• Windows GSM phones get 'unbreakable' encryption

  An Australian company last week launched a security tool for GSM mobile phones that encrypts transmissions to avoid eaves droppers.

• Massive quantum network unveiled

  The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future.

• Encrypted satellite phones avoid prying ears

  Cairns-based counter-surveillance and encrypted telephony outfit ESD Group has begun shipping encryption-capable satellite telephones that work anywhere in Australia.

• Skype encryption too tough for German police

  VoIP provider Skype's encryption creates serious problems for the German Federal Police Office(BKA) according to Jrg Ziercke, BKA president.

• Microsoft: Bitlocker key to safe disk disposal

  Microsoft claims that businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks.

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  Conroy's filtering plan: security worries

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?

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• Commentary: Encryption, hashing, and obfuscation

  In a world of scoundrels, hackers, and thieves, protecting data has become an integral part of computing. So you'd better secure it or lose it, says one expert.

• Encryption packages: Beyond the code

  Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages.

• Security innovation: Building a better louse trap

  In the last few years, most of the innovation in security has involved finding clever new ways to do things with existing technologies. Are there revolutionary changes in the wings?

• Uncrackable encryption: it's not sci-fi

  Imagine encryption technology so secure that breaking it would violate the laws of physics. How can new quantum research be used to protect your data?

• Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

  As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

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• Encryption packages: Beyond the code

  Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages

• Uncrackable encryption: it's not sci-fi

  Imagine encryption technology so secure that breaking it would violate the laws of physics. How can new quantum research be used to protect your data?

• Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007

  Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 was hard to install and produced several noticeable glitches that distracted us from the benefits of the suite.

• Quantum leaps

  It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.

• GoToMyPC 4.1

  After years of flying high with no competition, GoToMyPC falls to earth against stiff competition from MyWebEx PC, which is free.

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