August 16, 2002
The Atlantic Online: Homeland Insecurity.
Charles C. Mann. Schneier's side won the battle as the nineties came to a close. But by that time he had realized that he was fighting the wrong war. Crypto was not enough to guarantee privacy and security. Failures occurred all the time—which was what Schneier's terrible idea demonstrated.
CryptoGram: Palladium and the TCPA.
There's been more written about Microsoft's Palladium security initiative than about anything else in computer security in a very long time. My URL list of comments, analysis, and opinions goes on for quite a while. Which is interesting, because we really don't know anything about the details of what it is or how it works.
NY Times: Speech Recognition Follies.
But dictation software will never reach 100 percent, and therefore we'll always need a keyboard or stylus to correct typos (or "wordos"). Not because the software isn't good enough -- but because in the English language, too many words sound alike.
News.Com: Judge hits rewind on ReplayTV case.
U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted permission to combine a copyright lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of the device owners and one filed by consumer electronics manufacturer Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV.
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