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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (28051)	9/9/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Protect Your Privacy - tips From a member of our "tribe"..... ================ If you want to have a truly secure computing environment you'll need to run a UNIX based O.S. Even with a more secure environment on your computer, being connected to the net still allows a window to the world so to speak. I've spent a good portion of my professional career in the systems architecture realm. Security is something that needs to be thought about consistantly. If you want to be on the 'net and you want to be more secure look at doing the following - 1) Load Linux on your machine. All the kernel level code that you can't get to in MS and Mac is readily accessable in UNIX. You have control over how you communicate with other computers. 2) Encrypt your communications as needed. Although no ecryption program is failure proof, having one (like PGP-good, IM55-better) is an excellent idea. IM55 encrypts on your local machine - even if someone accesses your machine they only see encrypted garbage. Remember this though - encryption increases interest in your mail for some. 3) Change your passwords. Change them often. 4) How secure is your ISP or hosting site? Most firewalls are a complete joke. If you want details of the best and worst ISP/hosting sites contact me directly. 5) Remember nothing is 100% secure. If you have sensitive files, consider securing them on Zip type drives separate from your machine. Nothing is 100% secure when connected. Protect yourself accordingly.

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (28051)	9/9/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Not Yet PJ. They are still keeping the access real tight to their internal group until the UI is completed. They want to be absolutely sure the UI is bullet-proof in its friendliness, functionality, and intuitiveness. In fact they have hired an outside firm with UI expertise to help them finish of the UI component of the Digital-Me. I would guess for their UI experience and to speed up the deployment. Once they feel the UI is near complete - I would guess they will allow some restricted external beta access. I have asked to be one of the testers and they thought I would be a good candidate. I'm chomping at the bit to try it, but still waiting Peter. I do fully understand their attention to detail on the initial release since this would be their first real "Internet" service deployment and they have to do it right or risk industry rejection on this and any future planned Internet product/services releases (like I-Chain service offerings). My only fears are that we are seeing a lot of similar-type competing services starting to show up and Novell's digital-Me thunder is being stolen by the e-wallet offerings. I know the Digital-Me is more than that - but perception may be reality for Novell's Digital-Me as an also-ran service and one that will be hard to prove otherwise. The first ones into this service gain the best parts of the glory. I am not sure if the Digital-Me service requires an XML capable browsers like IE5, or if they are putting an XML-to-HTML translator in place to ensure all browsers can access the Digital-Me service. I would guess the later is true for better market penetration. Toy