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Comment Connections are still encrypted (Score 1) 897

by cdhgee on Monday August 04, 2008 @01:48PM (#24469759) Attached to: Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web

TFA seems to imply that the Mozilla policy degrades HTTPS connections down to plain HTTP - Not only does it make users less secure overall by reducing the number of encrypted connections. This isn't the case - assuming you add an exception for the particular site you are accessing over HTTPS that is using a self-signed certificate, your connection to that site is still encrypted. The only difference is that you don't have the trust element that a commercial HTTPS certificate would give you. IMHO, Mozilla is quite right to add a warning to this effect to protect the masses.

Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard? 369

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:22PM from the what's-wrong-with-jpeg dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has submitted their HD Photo to the JPEG committee: 'Microsoft's ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard. If successful, the new file standard will be known as JPEG XR.' Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the specification available without charge.' While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed). Is this a big of an issue as ODF/OOXML?"

German Prosecutors Won't Help RIAA Counterpart 199

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:41PM from the will-never-happen-here dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A German court decision ruled that the European counterpart to the RIAA cannot invoke criminal proceedings over petty file sharing incidents. The goal was to to find out from ISPs the identity of alleged file-sharing subscribers; the requests have been refused as the judge saw the the proceedings as not in the 'public interest', and little or no economic damage was shown to have been caused to the record companies. Offering a few copyright-protected music tracks via a P2P network client was 'a petty offense,' the court declared. Within days, German prosecutors have now indicated that they will no longer permit the use of 'criminal proceedings' to procure subscriber information."

Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01 398

Posted by kdawson on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:48AM from the swatting-a-nat dept.

IO ERROR writes "An internet-draft published this month calls for an IPv6 transition plan which would require all Internet-facing servers to have IPv6 connectivity on or before January 1, 2011. 'Engineer and author John Curran proposes that migration to IPv6 happen in three stages. The first stage, which would happen between now and the end of 2008, would be a preparatory stage in which organizations would start to run IPv6 servers, though these servers would not be considered by outside parties as production servers. The second stage, which would take place in 2009 and 2010, would require organizations to offer IPv6 for Internet-facing servers, which could be used as production servers by outside parties. Finally, in the third stage, starting in 2011, IPv6 must be in use by public-facing servers.' Then IPv4 can go away."

Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number 254

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:03AM from the please-enter-your-face-again dept.

coondoggie writes "Face recognition as a unique biometric is growing slowly in certain corporate and consumer applications, but researchers at the University of Houston (UH) are trying to make the technology far more ubiquitous and secure: they want it to replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN), passwords and credit card numbers everyone uses every day. University researchers developed the URxD face recognition software that uses a three-dimensional snapshot of a person's face to create a unique biometric identifier."

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