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Over My Dead Body
That is what Niels Ferguson a developer & cryptographer for Windows Vista wrote in response to a BBC News article speculating about a possible “back door” in BitLocker (https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm).A backdoor in an OS will…
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SPAM is GOOD?
SPAM IS GOOD!! Yes, we all love it (well Asians mostly), there’s even a SPAM restaurant here in the Philippines serving different dishes with the main ingredient as SPAM.But the ‘other’ spam isn’t good. In fact it is very annoying that we wish it i…
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Blogosphere Blackout
After six years of service, Journalspace went offline, not because of financial difficulties or whatever reason that they have to pull-the-plug, but because of a backup failure.Quoting Journalspace:Here is what happened: the server which held…
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Microsoft Opens Up and Supports the Free and Open-Source Developers?
NOTE: Don’t get me wrong, this is a good move of Microsoft. But I have some points I want to make.(“Microsoft Interoperability Being Watched by the European Commission” – link below)Microsoft is releasing 30,000 pages of documentation for Wi…