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	<title>Cryptosmith &#187; Microsoft</title>
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	<description>Authentication, crypto, information security, and life with gadgets - Rick Smith</description>
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		<title>The blunt sword of legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/957</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick (l) Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota&#8217;s Senator Klobuchar has co-sponsored a bill to criminalize certain behavior by peer-to-peer file sharing programs. The bill is supposed to require a sort of informed consent by computer owners whenever a P2P file sharing program arrives. Here&#8217;s what the bill wants to require: • Ensures that P2P file sharing programs cannot be installed without providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is public data non-public?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rick Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s public information on paper, is the electronic version also a public record? As a techie, I tend to think so. The electronic version carries more information, is easier to work with, and is sometimes easier to authenticate. The city of Phoenix, AZ, recently argued the opposite in court, and ultimately lost. Someone was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Laptop</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/593</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 18:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rick Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought a Dell laptop. I generally buy from vendors I know, and St. Thomas has been buying Dell systems for the past several years. I might have bought an Apple, but their lowest base price was $1,000. I knew I could do a little better. In any case, I wanted to run both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Microsoft-Centric World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1970s when many of us were struggling to free ourselves from mainframes, the mantra in the computing world was &#8220;Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.&#8221; No doubt Bill Gates was inspired by this to build his own empire. Today, people unblushingly swap &#8220;IBM&#8221; for &#8220;Microsoft&#8221; in that mantra. Since converting back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Design Patterns&#8221; for Identity Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/300</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Rick Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are design patterns in the Christopher Alexander sense rather than the object oriented design sense: they address the physical and network environment rather than focusing on software abstractions. The patterns were introduced in my book Authentication. There are four patterns: local, direct, indirect, and off-line. Here is a brief description of each authentication pattern: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally &#8211; fixing the updater vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/197</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick (l) Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my personal nightmares is in the automatic software updating mechanism that infests every significant modern software package. It&#8217;s a huge vulnerability. Many vendors ignored the problem because they hadn&#8217;t seen a real exploit. In a recent article, Security Fix tells of a researcher in Argentina who has implemented a sample exploit, so vendors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop changes = Microsoft disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/92</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick (l) Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Ozzie was talking at a conference, reported on by Mary Jo Foley in which he briefly compared the risk to Microsoft by Google and open source. The report also talks about Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;culture of crisis.&#8221; I think the culture of crisis is the key to their success. Bill Gates was always identifying threats and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of the mouse?</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptosmith.com/archives/91</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick (l) Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Bill Gates claims the mouse will be replaced by touch screens. I&#8217;m not so sure myself. Hand movements are an incredibly expensive part of the user interface. I believe that the more we use computers, the more we&#8217;ll type. The more we type, the more we&#8217;ll want good keyboards and short-movement methods to select [...]]]></description>
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