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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?

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To: Phil Jacobson who wrote (26385)4/1/1999 12:16:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
And even more unbelievable is what is happening to us

We are the innocent victims. The FBI doesn't know who it is looking for, so it looks for everyone. Without digitalme the innocents, the people who are not afraid to have their digital identity exist so long as it is protected by an identity vault, are treated like the criminals.

With digitalme, you and I are in the digitalme vault. Anyone who needs to know that we exist can verify that fact by checking our identity at the vault. No hacker would submit himself to an identity vault check in order to roam around the net because that hacker could be immediately identified through the vault. That is the beauty of the approach.

The MIcrosoft approach of embedding watermarks and traces into people's files will not work. They will never find the guy that way because he is hiding behind faked accounts, faked ids etc. In fact the true irony of the situation is that the MSFT id derived from the physical id of the network card device and placed into Word and Office files was put there to prevent people from downloading updates to Microsoft products if they were not registered users. Here is an obvious example of the security of that system being breached.

The hacker forged an id acceptable to MSFT and raided their system for his updates. Thus no physical id whether it is CPU based or network card based can trace a breach to a hacker.

THe only thing that makes sense, and I hope someone at Novell can explain it to the government, is to separate the sheep from the wolves. Put the sheep in the digitalme vault and leave the wolves out in the woods --- fair game for the hunters.

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Given all that I have posted on the internet about digitalme, I'm probably accumulating an FBI file thanks to MSFT's attack on privacy.
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