What might E-Mail look like if it were invented by… Linus Torvalds… the OSS-Community… the XMPP-Guys… or any company without central servers within their buisness plan? To me Google Wave is not much more than an IMAP-Server with integrated CSV-Log and a nice GUI. If you remember Linux Torvalds talk on the GIT at Google [...]

Soon after our sones Windows7 install day I realized, that our OpenVPN based VPN isn’t working properly! Fortunately there is an easy workaround:
First: “Rightclick” onto the installer and set the compatibility mode to “Vista” and run the installer as “Administrator”

Second: “Rightclick” onto the OpenVPN GUI and run it as “Administrator”

Third: If you prefer to have [...]

The UK’s “Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure” has recently released a paper called “Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol” disposing the myths of the warfare-safe Internet design. Actually the main goal of the ARPANet was sharing the access to large supercomputers, not the security within this “mostly private” network.
Perhaps the paper is a [...]

The National Science Foundation has created great and very interessting site on the history of the NSF-/ARPA-/INTERNET.

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