August 15, 2003
Crypto-Gram: New Book: Beyond Fear.
If I can name one overarching goal of the book, it's to explain how we all can make ourselves safer by thinking of security not in absolutes, but in terms of trade-offs -- the inevitable expenses, inconveniences, and diminished freedoms we accept (or have forced on us) in the name of enhanced security.
CIO: Spin Control.
As devices get smaller and storage needs grow, researchers are eagerly looking for new ways to pack multiple gigabytes of data into increasingly tinier spaces. One potential solution, proposed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, takes data storage down to a new level by using the orientation of spinning electrons to store data.
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