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Submission + - The Software Tools Business, a Microsoft View

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holden

on Sunday October 07, 2007 @02:23AM

holden writes: "Rico Mariani, an eighteen-year veteran at Microsoft, spoke to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, sharing his unique take on the history of, and controversies surrounding, Microsoft and the software tools industry in general. His responses in the q&a session to free software advocates is particularly interesting. The talk bas been digitized and is now available online."

Comment ECC (Score 1) 2

by toriniku.kun on Sunday October 07, 2007 @12:20AM (#20885043) Attached to: Protecting Privacy by Design

Interesting... Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography

Submission + - Designing software with Privacy in mind 6

Submitted by dalektcalum on Saturday October 06, 2007 @07:06PM

dalektcalum writes: Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Canada's Information and Privacy Commissioner, recently gave a talk entitled Privacy by Design. The talk starts of by covering the basics of privacy, and privacy law, and then moves onto the important component, how to design software that properly protects users privacy. The majourity of the time is spent on design principles, but also examines specific technologies (such as Elliptical Curve Cryptography).

Submission + - Privacy By Design (holdenkarau.com) 3

Submitted by holdenkarau on Saturday October 06, 2007 @12:35AM

holdenkarau writes: Canadian privacy commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, recently gave a talk entitled Privacy by Design to the University of Waterloo. The focus of the talk is how to use technology to enhance and protect privacy. Some of the technologies discussed included instant messaging, RFID tags and Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC). Then Dr. Cavoukian explained the "7 Privacy — Embedded Laws" followed by a discussion on a biometrics solution to encryption.

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