its good to see sony learn from their mistakes. its one of the companies i can compare with apple as far as innovation goes. the atrac format is another example where they stumbled but with the appearance of sony at last weeks macworld, i anticipate some exciting new products coming from the cooperation of both companies.
the ipod is the best mp3 player right now, but i fully expected real ipod competetion to come from sony. however i wouldn't count them out.
all the more reason not to use either and instead to enhance your own security.
all computers should be sold with hardware and software firewalls, and pgp or a pgp like app built in. i wondered where phil zimmerman was (creator of pgp) and its good to see he's still around. here's a quote from his homepage where he's asked about backdoors in pgp:
"Q: Are there any back doors in PGP? Come on, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone.
A: No. There never have been, and never will be, at least as long as I am associated with the product. I didn't go through all this trouble just to see my product become corrupted. Besides, we publish the source code, so you can check it yourself. "
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its good to see sony learn from their mistakes. its one of the companies i can compare with apple as far as innovation goes. the atrac format is another example where they stumbled but with the appearance of sony at last weeks macworld, i anticipate some exciting new products coming from the cooperation of both companies. the ipod is the best mp3 player right now, but i fully expected real ipod competetion to come from sony. however i wouldn't count them out.
all the more reason not to use either and instead to enhance your own security.
all computers should be sold with hardware and software firewalls, and pgp or a pgp like app built in. i wondered where phil zimmerman was (creator of pgp) and its good to see he's still around. here's a quote from his homepage where he's asked about backdoors in pgp:
"Q: Are there any back doors in PGP? Come on, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone.
A: No. There never have been, and never will be, at least as long as I am associated with the product. I didn't go through all this trouble just to see my product become corrupted. Besides, we publish the source code, so you can check it yourself. "
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/faq/index.html
i knew there was a reason i trusted phil when i used pgp. and am glad to see he's still at it, and urge anyone whos not using it, to start.
the good thing about all of this is if it works it just might end up saving lives on our side.