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The Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. DIDComm messaging has several important properties that, taken together, provide a generative, secure network overlay for the Internet. Autonomic Identifiers. Private - messages can be encrypted.

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A Console Modder Recreated a Classic Portable GameCube That Only Ever Existed Online as a Render

Gizmodo

It’s still no easy feat, but creating a realistic 3D render of a miniaturized console is nowhere near as difficult as building the real thing, but that didn’t stop YouTuber GingerOfOz from building a handheld portable GameCube based on nothing but a concept pic that’s been floating around the internet since 2005. Read more.

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The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

Social, Agile and Transformation

The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Datas Promise. The Internet of Things. I have mixed success as a futurist, but Im fairly convinced that the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine technologies will be one of the next waves of major technology advances. 20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big.

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Microsoft finally bans SHA-1 certificates in Internet Explorer and Edge

Network World

The Tuesday updates for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge force those browsers to flag SSL/TLS certificates signed with the aging SHA-1 hashing function as insecure. SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) dates back to 1995 and has been known to be vulnerable to theoretical attacks since 2005.

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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.

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A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

Vox

Getty Images The internet is far less secure than it ought to be. How to (almost) hack everything Here’s how events played out: In 2005, software engineer Lasse Collin wrote a series of tools for better-compressing files (it’s similar to the process behind a.zip file). The security ramifications would have been huge.

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Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world

Trends in the Living Networks

It is in fact one of the hottest and fastest-growing Internet markets in the world. Turkish Internet users have the highest level of engagement in Europe. Recent statistics show that Turkish internet users have the highest level of engagement of any country in Europe, both in hours spent online and number of pages viewed.

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