MSN8 is a very scary product indeed. It's AOL, worse even. It has parental controls that seemingly allow parents to completely monitor their child's surfing history, including sites visited, people talked to, and content of messages. What rights does or should a child have? What would Childnet, or Childline think of that? What kind of parents would want to invade their child's privacy to that degree? How MANY parents would want to invade said privacy to that degree? If a child get into trouble with a parent as a result of this big brother surveillance, what will their actions be in the future?
Canada is currently putting a national identity card system into place.
The USA is considering one.
Trusted hardware, and use of biometric authentication systems (sometimes in tandem with other ID systems), is being encouraged by Msoft et al. How do portable identity devices look?
The Project Fingerprint password-sense-check is now being put into place by MSN8. Well done, Fingerprint team! You got somewhere faster than Microsoft! :)
Even at a tech conference like this, the distribution of PC - Mac seems to be higher than national average, with a guess at 70-30, maybe even 60 - 40. LOTS of titaniums. Showing off style, or a geniune shift away from Windows?
Doc is blogging this conference to his usual fantastic standard.
An entity that is hard to use is deemed LESS trustworthy than something easy to use.
Trust is King...
Posted by alice at October 10, 2002 06:02 PM