2004 July 20

“Quantum cryptography has the potential to guarantee perfectly secure communications, but until now all of the prototype systems have been point-to-point links rather than networks that share connections.”
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Any time I see someone offering ‘perfect’ ANYTHING, I feel my neck hairs doing The Warning Dance. I may not understand the fine points of this technology, [...]

“Tim Berners-Lee, the London-born scientist who invented the World Wide Web, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday….The Queen made the 49-year-old scientist a knight commander, the second-highest rank of the Order of the British Empire, in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.”

“…Russian-based antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs said Duts was created by Ratter, the pseudonym of a virus writer who is an active member of the international group 29A. The group is famous for its proof-of-concept viruses, like the mobile phone-targeting Cabir and Rugrat, the first known virus capable of attacking 64-bit Windows files. Cabir was launched [...]