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  • OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

    Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

  • Research reveals RFID works using 'magic'

    When asked how RFID worked, a group of novices responded to a recent academic survey with "witchcraft" and "magic".

  • Worms dodge Internet sensors

    Internet sensor networks such as the SANS Internet Storm Center rely on their own invisibilty to be effective, but researchers now say it is possible to map their locations

  • AU Unix and open systems group in dire straits

    One of the oldest Unix user groups in the world -- the Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group (AUUG) -- may be forced to close its doors due to declining membership.

  • Slammer: The first 'Warhol' worm?

    Last week's Sapphire worm, widely known as SQL Slammer, infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable computers within 10 minutes, opening a new era of fast-spreading viruses on the Internet, according to a think tank.

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  • MS Palladium: A must or a menace?

    Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.

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