by Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Grammy judges will be listening to the upcoming award nominees online, thanks to a partnership with Yangaroo, a Canadian media-distribution start-up.
The company’s technology encrypts music files with a watermark and lets record labels share them securely with radio stations and other destinations. The watermark allows Yangaroo to identify each person who has downloaded a track, so if a song is leaked, it can trace its origin.
by John Markoff, Technology Writer, The New York Times
In less than two months after a group of University of Washington computer researchers proposed a novel system for making electronic messages “disappear” after a certain period of time, a rival group of researchers based at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton, and the University of Michigan, has claimed to have undermined the scheme.
Bill Clinton sent only two email messages as president and has yet to pick up the habit. George W. Bush ceased using email in January 2001 but has said he’s looking forward to emailing “my buddies” after leaving Washington, D.C. Barack Obama, though, is a serious email addict.
The rise of cloud computing raises a lot of legal issues, and one of the thorniest involves the variations in national laws governing the storage and use of personal and other information. Controls on data threaten, for instance, to prevent certain information from being stored in data centers outside a user’s home country, hence eroding some of the efficiencies promised by a global cloud.
Should security people doubt themselves? Or does that make us seem wishy-washy and weak? Is that why we continue to pursue the goal of Perfect Security with such single-mindedness? Or are we just protecting our own investments?
At the risk of shocking the security world, in my keynote address at the 2007 RSA Conference, I said [...]
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