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Michael Hayden, head of the CIA under former President George W. Bush, says the U.S. should create a totally new Internet infrastructure to thwart cyber attacks that increasingly plagues the current Internet.
The proposed new system, with the domain name ".secure" instead of ".com," would get rid of the anonymity protected by the privacy guarantees of the Fourth Amendment. Users would need "certified credentials" to access the .secure system, according to Nextgov.com, which monitors the use of technology in the federal government.
It would allow the federal government and financial institutions, for instance, to operate behind the secured infrastructure, while users who wish to remain anonymous could continue to use the present .com domain.
Some cyber security specialists fret that Fourth Amendment privacy rights prevent the federal government from securing its information technology as tightly as other, more restrictive countries, like China, that monitor all Internet usage in the country for both viruses and anything critical of the government.
Others are critical of the .secure idea, however, arguing that the new network will be too big to manage and will actually help hackers go after government computers, by gathering all the important information in one place.
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A class of Stanford University graduate students recently created a prototype of a computer laptop which can much more easily be broken down for recycling than notebook computers on the market today. The Bloom laptop, as it is called, earned the students an Autodesk Inventor of the Month award for October, as the students designed the laptop concept using Autodesk software.
The students, as part of Stanford's ME310 course, wanted to tackle a problem around e-waste that, for example, saw 1.9 to 2.2 million tons of electronics becoming obsolete in 2005, with only 345,000 to 379,000 tons of it being recycled. The task assigned to these students by their professor was to "create a recyclable consumer electronics product that makes electronics recycling a simpler, more effective and engaging process." This laptop concept effectively does this, sporting a modular design that can easily be separated into different material types - such as plastics, metals and circuitry - for easier recycling.
It is said the Bloom laptop idea "can be disassembled in just two minutes, without tools and in just 10 steps. By comparison, a commercially available laptop takes about 45 minutes to disassemble, requires three separate tools and involves as many as 120 steps."
Also of note with this easy-to-dissemble design is a keyboard and track pad that can be detached to allow for improved ergonomics; and also an easier process "to repair and upgrade components over the lifetime of the product, so that buying a computer is no longer a singular investment, but a longer-term relationship between the consumer and the service provider."
"Consumer electronics waste is a significant and growing problem," said Robert Kross, senior vice president, Manufacturing Industry Group at Autodesk, in a statement. "These students are facing that issue head-on with their innovative Bloom laptop prototype. It's encouraging and exciting to see college students embrace Digital Prototyping to tackle the sustainability challenges of our times."
Reprinted with permission from EarthTechling
There is a war currently being fought in China's cyberspace. No, it does not involve the Great Firewall of China, nor does it involve Google's next attempt at market expansion in the Middle Kingdom. On the contrary, this war is being fought between two domestic Internet players: Tencent and Qihoo 360.
Over the past few months the two companies have been in a fierce battle to win users and their corresponding data. Qihoo 360's actions have forced Tencent to go to extreme measures and issue an ultimatum to Chinese netizens to choose either their software or that of Qihoo 360.
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Before we examine why this battle is being fought, let's take a quick look at who the two players are:
In response, Tencent said they had no choice but to make Chinese netizens decide between their service or Qihoo 360. If Tencent did not act, KouKou Bodyguard would spread rapidly through their user base dismantling the QQ empire. Therefore any computer with Qihoo 360's software would not be allowed to access QQ going forward. In an open letter to QQ users, Tencent proclaimed that rather than fight a battle on the desktops of its users (like Qihoo 360 did), Tencent would simply give the choice of which software to use to the users themselves.
At this point, Qihoo 360 has discontinued the KouKou Bodyguard tool, and it seems as though through the mediation of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the battle between the two Internet firms is subsiding.
While the dispute between Tencent and Qihoo 360 was not ideal for Chinese Internet users as the event unfolded, they will be better off for it. Just as China's melamine crisis in 2008 forced Chinese consumers to change their buying behaviors, the Tencent-Qihoo 360 saga will potentially have a similar impact on China's Internet industry.
It takes extreme situations to invoke a sense of seriousness around a particular issue. Chinese netizens will likely become more vigilant about what they are downloading, where the software comes from, and what data they may be potentially sharing. This type of change will not happen over night; however, this may very well mark the beginning of a safer Chinese Internet.
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