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

To: DJBEINO who wrote (28462)	10/6/1999 9:28:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Time for a dialogue with these privacy folks The operator of the digitalme identity vault server site cannot get access to user information. That information is protected behind encryption technology. Unlike web sites that information is not stored in an accessible database. Therefore there is no way for someone to get at your information unless you reveal it to them. The credit card component of digitalme is in its primitive stages, but that is due to the absence of a vendor billing system that can protect anyone who supplies a credit card to a vendor site. THere are ways that digitalme can address this problem in the future in partnership with a credit card company by building an integrated transaction processing system using directory technology. Whether Novell will go for this or not is a function of whether anybody at Novell has the vision and creativity required.

To: DJBEINO who wrote (28462)	10/6/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello DJBEINO, Wow, what an article. If nothing else, Novell sure is pulling together a lot of people to critique these systems ... > Big Brother in a box? > Both Microsoft and Novell's planned services put all user > information in a single place, and that's a problem, said Austin > Hill, president and CEO of privacy network Zero Knowledge Systems > Inc., a potential rival to both corporations. This is true. Centralized systems are for centralized "government" ... distributed systems create distributed centers of power, a much more democratic approach. Key to this is the distribution of information. > "Whether it is a hacker or a civil subpoena, anyone who wants to > access your information has a one-stop shop," said Hill. Zero > Knowledge has created a beta version of an encrypted network that > hides its users' identities. The network does not require the user > to trust the company and let's each user store their own data. In > addition, Hill thinks consumer information should not be collected > in a single database. Bingo! I have been impressed by this company from the first time I read their web site ... they truly understand the issues. Scott C. Lemon