Courtney Love open letter
Courtney Love has written a compelling open letter to her fellow recording artists that follows up nicely on her speech last year, which did Napster more good than all the Bertelsmann money in the world.
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Archive for March 2001
Craig Burton on Hailstorm
Craig Burton weighs in on Microsoft’s Hailstorm.
Key quote: The bad news about this is that we have to live with all this Microsoft FUD while they try to own what can’t be owned and control what can’t be controlled. The good news about this is that it leaves lots of room for the Internet OS to happen — with, or without Microsoft.
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Microsoft warns of hijacked certificates
Microsoft warns of hijacked certificates. According to Microsoft, someone posing as a Microsoft employee tricked VeriSign, which hands out so-called digital signatures, into issuing the two certificates in the software giant’s name on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.
(See also News.com.)
[via Tomalak’s Realm]
Secure Single Sign-on: Principles, Goals, and Compromises
Shawn Bayern at Yale:
“Secure Single Sign-on: Principles, Goals, and Compromises“.
See also: Yale’s “Central Authentication Service“.
Amazoning The News
Amazoning The News
by Ellen Kampinsky, Shayne Bowman, Chris Willis
Adapted from a presentation by Ellen Kampinsky at The Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspaper Conference, Feb. 21, 2001
What if we told stories on the web the way Amazon sells books? Storytelling on the web demands its own vocabulary and strategies — indeed a whole new way of thinking. The web site that does the best job of telling stories in a web-appropriate way is also the most successful: Amazon. So blow up your old notion of “story.” See what happens when you apply Amazon’s user-savvy approach to typical news events.
[via Evhead via Scripting News]
Cryptologists Discover Flaw in E-Mail Security Program
NY Times: Cryptologists Discover Flaw in E-Mail Security Program. According to a statement issued yesterday by ICZ, an information technology company in Prague with about 500 employees, the cryptologists, Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa, found the problem while doing research on secure communications for the Czech government. [Tomalak’s Realm]
PGP inventor downplays encryption flaw
ZDNN: PGP inventor downplays encryption flaw. Two Czech researchers said Tuesday that they had found a hole in the widely used encryption and digital signature standard known as OpenPGP. They remained silent on the technical details, however, leaving many security experts wondering whether the flaw actually existed. [Tomalak’s Realm]
