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China reveals massive smart ID card plan
News This massive transformation has proceeded largely under a veil of secrecy, with little public debate. China will replace paper national identification (ID) cards with electronic identity cards starting in 2004, according to wire agency Dow Jones.
[August 13, 2003, 16:05]
Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers
Talkback If there is a note of urgency or secrecy in the proposal coming a previously unknown person, beware. It is indeed unfortunate that these scammers continue with their nefarious activities, thereby soiling the name and reputation of serious minded...
[October 21, 2005, 13:48]
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Comment We don't need someone to help overcome problems of how to get government data published — we need a change in attitude to a presumption of publication, rather than of secrecy. It's an interesting move, but I fear it will do little more than catch...
[June 10, 2009, 15:58]
Linspire boss urges Dutch government to go open source
News The secrecy was widely condemned in an earlier open letter. Linspire chief executive Michael Robertson yesterday urged the Dutch government to consider open source as an option in an ambitious upgrading of over 260,000 workstations and servers.
[December 15, 2004, 14:30]
Pros and cons
Talkback Thus the "secrecy", such as it is, of the vote is more vulnerable to being undone. I've heard of similar systems. Advantages: You have a real paper trail. The ballots are counted electronically, and the papers only need to be stored for the...
[January 31, 2007, 14:16]
ICANN still rules the Net
News Critics have accused ICANN of unnecessary secrecy and failing to include the public in its decisions. As expected, the US Commerce Department has extended for one more year its contract with the organisation that governs the Internet's infrastructure.
[September 23, 2002, 10:58]
Throw citizens to the wolves
Talkback They claim they need to do this because of the need to keep encryption and secrecy technology out of the hands of evil doers -- criminals, terrorists, pedophiles, etc.who will use crypto technology to further their evil enterprises.
[July 29, 2009, 9:31]
MP demands inquiry into Time Computers collapse
News Evans also hit out at the secrecy that has surrounded the owners of Granville Technology and its complex web of related companies. A Lancashire Conservative MP has called for a Government inquiry into the collapse of Granville Technology Group, the...
[August 4, 2005, 13:05]
One flight later...
Blog Comment That's why we have information property laws, which recognise that publishing something removes secrecy and attempt to provide other ways to protect the work within. Oh, I'm not saying it's not a bad thing to do.
[November 23, 2007, 7:29]
Why Turing matters
Blog Comment Is it also notable that we decided to destroy all trace of the achievements at Bletchley Park in the cause of secrecy, whereas the Americans turned their cryptography achievements into a multi-gadzillion dollar business?
[September 11, 2009, 15:40]
Government rejects IT recommendations
News But the Department for Work and Pensions has rejected key recommendations made by MPs in the report, including lifting the cloak of secrecy surrounding big government IT projects by making the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) 'gateway reviews...
[October 22, 2004, 10:10]
Football managers discover Internet
News The move will present a steep learning curve for the LMA members but could revolutionise the world of transfer deals, which has often been shrouded in secrecy. England's football managers may not be the most tech-savvy group around but nevertheless...
[September 15, 1999, 11:17]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: a first look review
Reviews There have been some snippets of information over the last year or so (among them its final name) but Microsoft has managed to achieve almost Apple-like levels of secrecy. Microsoft, like Apple, has one customer.
[July 13, 2009, 14:32]
Crazy open source cola publicity stunt
News He said that this unlikely application of the General Public Licence (GPL) was inspired by the secrecy surrounding the recipe for Coca-Cola. The hype surrounding open source is now so thick, smaller companies are resorting to some bizarre publicity...
[February 8, 2000, 16:25]
Cookieless Web monitoring tool 'nearly undetectable'
News Several monitoring systems have been developed for use by law enforcement agencies that remain cloaked in secrecy, ostensibly due to security concerns. Researchers in Scotland are developing a new kind of Web monitoring software that they claim can...
[May 13, 2002, 10:14]
Secret codes 'not hidden in Web images'
News The weakness of such systems, say the researchers, is that they rely on the secrecy of the encoding system. A study of more than two million images downloaded from eBay auctions appears to show little evidence that terrorists -- or indeed anybody...
[September 26, 2001, 13:27]
MS: No breakup - restrictions maybe
News The settlement effort, shrouded in secrecy since it began in Chicago late last year, has been mediated by a federal appeals court judge, Richard Posner. Microsoft told lawmakers that any breakup of the software concern would amount to a "regulatory...
[February 16, 2000, 12:59]
Microsoft's secret plan behind the TomTom suit?
Blog This explains the secrecy behind all the deals - which, lest we forget, Microsoft is promoting as examples of open sharing - and is building up to a situation where Microsoft can detonate a huge improvised explosive device under Linux.
[March 5, 2009, 15:43]
Mystery Transmeta chip to be unveiled live on TV
News Couple that with the fact that Linus Torvalds, forefather of Linux, has maintained a carefully crafted veil of secrecy over his involvement with Transmeta and what you have is an eagerly anticipated event that could send Intel into a desperate panic.
[January 18, 2000, 8:57]
Cisco set for huge router launch
News Despite all the hype and secrecy generated by CRS-1, the high-end router isn't expected to contribute to Cisco's bottom line any time soon. The product, code-named HFR (for huge fast router), will be unveiled at an event marking Cisco's 20-year...
[May 24, 2004, 13:00]
