802.11 based "Star Trek" communicators. Cool...

Vocera Communications Products

"The fundamental issue is that whoever controls the Fritz chips will acquire a huge amount of power. There are many ways in which this power could be abused, and Intel has refused to answer questions on the governance of the TCPA consortium. "

Ross Anderson's TCPA FAQ

TCPA / Palladium FAQ

"People believed that the GPL made it impossible for a company to come along and steal code that was the result of community effort. That may have been the case so long as the processor was open, and anyone could access supervisor mode. But TCPA changes that completely. Once the majority of PCs on the market are TCPA-enabled, the GPL won't work as intended any more. "

A more coherent discussion of the threat of processor certs. (I did a talk on this at SummerCon 1997.) People should simply refuse to buy computers that refuse to do what they are told. Worked with DivX... If this fails, then lets organize a collaborative cracking effort...

More Ross Anderson on Vile TCPA

The most stark change is the event's location, an auditorium at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, which seats 316. Last year's extravaganza sold out the War Memorial Opera House, capacity 3,100. "

Webbys not what they used to be

"While testing for Oracle vulnerabilities, Mark Litchfield discovered a denial of service attack for Apache on Windows. Investigation by the Apache Software Foundation showed that this issue has a wider scope, which on some platforms results in a denial of service vulnerability, while on some other platforms presents a potential a remote exploit vulnerability. "

Serious Apache Bug

"New forms of social software are one of the most hopeful green shoots erupting from a still-bleak technology landscape. "The excitement is coming back,"

O'Reilly Network: Seeing and Tuning Social Networks [Jun. 04, 2002]

"Most likely ... the Internet's role as a site of radical business and technology innovation, and its status as a revolutionary force that disrupts existing social and regulatory regimes, is coming to an end."

An extremely pessimistic view of the problems with the ICANN. The thing is that if ICANN becomes bad enough that it makes sense to do away with it, its a simple matter to create and promote an alternative DNS system. It may be hard to make it ubiquitous, but on the other hand, there is nothing they can do to stop you.

Salon.com Technology | The end of the revolution

It is the most romantic story in American cryptology. To keep the Japanese from getting American secrets in World War II, Navajos -- among the original Americans -- spoke over the radio in their native tongue.

In a sidebar to the movie review for "Windtalkers", David Kahn, author of the crypto classic _The Codebreakers_, retells the true story of Marine Corps codetalkers in World War II.

When Navajos Fought Japanese for Ne-He-Mah

Extreme Networks: "We will have a 10gbps module within the next few months." It will cost around $60,000.

Stick a fork in it; 10 GigE is done -- but still too hot to eat

"On May 15, the Cato Institute published a new paper by Liebowitz, "Policing Pirates in the Networked Age," that takes a comprehensive look at the history of the recording industry's battle with piracy."

Salon.com Technology | File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty