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Tech Talk Radio Highlights
This week on Tech Talk we reviewed the Digital Rights Management
features in Microsoft Office 2003, the FCC vote to delay telecommunication
deregulation, the threat of voting machine hacking, a media
file fingerprinting and tracking program to limit MP3 file
sharing, the low error rates of open source code, and much
more...
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| Digital Rights Mgmt In MS Office 2003 | | |
Information
Rights Management is a persistent file technology that allows
users to assign permissions to file access, modification,
printing, e-mailing, and copying. This technology, which was
designed to enforce copyright and security policy, permits
the user to set usage restrictions that are enforced no matter
where the file is located. With these restrictions in place,
an e-mail attachment can be sent that includes such restrictions.
Office 2003 must be present to read such protected (and encrypted)
files. The program will work in conjunction with Windows 2003
Server rights management.
Check
out the Full Story
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| FCC Votes Against Telecomm Deregulation | | |
Federal
Communications Commission Chair Michael K. Powell failed in
his attempt to further deregulate the telecommunications industry.
In a 3-2 loss, the FCC voted against eliminating the current
rules that force the "baby bells" (Verizon, SBC
Communications, BellSouth, and Qwest) to lease "unbundled
services" at wholesale rates to competitive local area exchange
carriers (CLEC).
The FCC did vote in favor of eliminating the requirement
that phone companies share high-speed fiber optic networks
with CLECs. This small coup for the 'baby bells' probably
won't spur much additional investment in the local loop
infrastructure according to some analysts.
Check
out the CNN Article
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Voting Machine Hacking Threat
| | | The country is rushing to adopt computerized voting
systems with touch screen input in order to eliminate
the problems with punch cards and pencil ballots. Since
such computerized systems have no paper trail for
auditing purposes, we must rely on software to properly
tally the vote. Unfortunately, such software is rarely
certified prior to election day and some feel is subject
to hacking.
Black Box Voting calls
for greater oversight of voting machines by the election
boards and believes that the lack of validated code is a
potential problem. For instance, the day before the election
last January, all 22,000 Diebold voting machines in Georgia
received an uncertified software patch. Maryland is under
contract to install the same Diebold machines.
Check
out the Full Story
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| MP3 File Fingerprinting and Tracking | | |
Audible
Magic has developed a way to track the digital signature
(or fingerprint) of any media file (MP3, MPEG, WAV, Real Audio).
This fingerprint can be used to monitor (and possibly block)
peer-to-peer sharing networks. Audible Magic's content-based
identification (CBID) technology is currently being beta tested
on the University of Wyoming network. Other universities are
expected to adopt this technology to block illegal mp3 file
sharing.
Check
out the Article
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| Open Source Code Has Lowest Error Rate | | |
A
recent study has shown that open source software has a lower
error rate than commercial closed source software. The study
compared the protocol stack of competing operating systems.
Linux had an error rate of 0.1 errors per 1,000 lines of code
while commercial Unix distributions had 0.6 errors per 1,000
lines. Even Microsoft, long an opponent of open-source development,
is beginning to share its source code with partners.
Check
out the Full Story
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