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California Governor Gray Davis must be bucking for the Geek vote in the October 7th special election in which he could be recalled from office. Today he stood tough and signed an antispam law that prohibits anyone from sending unsolicted commmercial e-mail (UCE, aka spam) to a California e-mail address.
IMing, shorthand for Instant Messaging, could waste a lot of valuable business time. Even though IM could be a digital replacement to the office water cooler, replacing the physical congregating to swap office gossip and the athletic spreads, IM seems to be used appropriately.
Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable.
The craziest thing that I've ever heard is to pay spammers not to spam, and that's just what a startup company from San Antonio, Texas, Global Removal (GR), is planning to do. Their theory is that spammers are in business to make money, and that the lowbrows will remove your e-mail address from all of their junk mail lists for a buck.
If you do run XP you can check to see if your system is patched to protect you from the buffer overrun that the recent Blaster worm. [GRC]
A new flaw can allow a hacker to take over your computer. I'm not surprised seems this is a weekly event. [Cnet] [Microsoft Patch]
I tried to count today how many passwords I have to remember. It astounded me I think I am up around 30. Proof is in the times I simply forget and have to call a system admin or request a temporary password e-mailed to me. My employer has very very strict naming conventions for passwords and they have to be