• New Privacy-Technology enables new (private) Business Models

    We announced it recently: Be acquired the U-Prove technology by a company called Credentica and quite some key members of Credentica have joined us. When we announced it, my excitement was – well – limited. It was another company we bought. But when I...
  • Technology to Circumvent Censorship

    Well, I was thinking hard whether I shall blog on that or not. But then a friend of mine brought up a valid point: I am always claiming that a lot of issues on the Internet are missing a public debate yet, what is more important - and this might well...
  • Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!

    As you all know: I rarely blog on competitors and – even rarer – blog about them negatively. But this time I definitely had to: As most of us I have QuickTime on my PC as well as a Java VM. I know that there are alternatives for this software and the...
  • Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) Could Allow Remote Code Execution

    I usually do not blog on Advisories we release as I guess that you subscribed to the corresponding alerts. If not, you should do that now here . This one is a little bit different as I know that quite some people within Microsoft are working during...
  • Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!! – Part 2

    Quite some of you read my initial post on that – and I like the comments I got. Now, it seems that I am not the only one being angry: I quote from What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates For the record, I think Apple is dead wrong in...