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Hugh Pickens writes 'The NY Times reports on new software called 'Vanish,' developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington, which makes sensitive electronic messages 'self destruct' after a certain period of time. The researchers say they have struck upon a unique approach that relies on 'shattering' an encryption key that is held by neither party in an e-mail exchange, but is widely scattered across a peer-to-peer file sharing system. 'Our goal was really to come up with a system where, through a property of nature, the message, or the data, disappears,' says Amit Levy, who helped create Vanish. It has been released as a free, open-source tool that works with Firefox. To use Vanish, both the sender and the recipient must have installed the tool. The sender then highlights any sensitive text entered into the browser and presses the 'Vanish' button. The tool encrypts the information with a key unknown even to the sender. That text can be read, for a limited time only, w

It might seem an odd move for a company that relies on money from advertising. Yet AOL is reducing the number of ads it shows on its home page and some other Web sites it runs.

Mozilla is downplaying a reported bug in its Firefox browser. According to Mozilla, initially reports that the vulnerability could be exploited to execute code are false. - Mozilla is pouring cold water on reports of a severe bug affecting its Firefox browser. Reports of a new stack overflow vulnerability affecting Firefox surfaced not long after the company released a new version to patch a critical bug in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine's JIT (just-in-time) c...

Astronauts complete a long day in space with the installation of a Ku-Band space-to-ground antenna, an outside pump module and a linear drive unit to an external stowage platform. NASA gives a go to start using a faulty ISS toilet. - While Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins celebrated the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon at the White House July 20, astronauts at the ISS (International Space Station) dealt with a more mundane matter: plumbing. A Russian-built, multimillion-...

Apple's Stock price has been on a steady rise for the past few weeks as analysts have predicted strong revenues and earnings for Apple tomorrow. However, profit taking seems to be getting an early start this time around.

News Analysis: internet explorer might be the top browser in the enterprise, but should it hold the top spot? Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome outshine the microsoft browser in terms of innovation. Here are 10 of the factors that might make some users want to switch to the competition. - microsoft's Internet Explorer has been the lightning rod for controversy as of late. The software giant has been facing intense pressure from the European Union to not bundle its browser with Windows 7 when it's released later this year. Opera software has continued pelting Microsoft about its p...

Ntractive announced a major upgrade and name change to its Mac OS X-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software on Monday. Starting immediately, Elements SBM will be known as Elements CRM. The update includes several new features and changes.

alphadogg sends in a network World piece on the unexpectedly effective technologies Iran is now employing to thwart their citizens' access to the Net. 'While the government's initial efforts to censor the Internet were blunt and often ineffective, it has started employing more sophisticated tools to thwart dissidents' attempts to communicate with each other and the outside world. Iranian dissidents are not alone in their struggle, however, as several sympathetic hacker groups have been working to keep them online. One such group is NedaNet, whose mission is to 'help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize.' NedaNet project coordinator Morgan Sennhauser, who has just written a paper detailing the Iranian government's latest efforts to thwart hackers (PDF), says that the government's actions have been surprisingly robust and have challenged hackers in ways that the Chin

In PC World's page-loading tests, Firefox 3.5 speeds past internet explorer and Safari, but it still can't catch Google's browser.