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US, UK agree to closer collaboration on cyberwarfare – CNET

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US, UK agree to closer collaboration on cyberwarfare
CNET
At a joint press conference Friday, US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron committed to expanding their countries' collaboration to fight cyber warfare and crime. "Given the urgent and growing danger of cyberthreats, we have …
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Google, MPEG LA agree to royalty-free terms for VP8 video codec

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Google and MPEG LA have announced that they have come to an agreement over Google’s VP8 video codec. 11 patent holders have agreed that any patented techniques used by VP8 can be used without payment of a royalty, forever.

In 2010, Google bought On2, a company that developed video compression algorithms. Shortly after the purchase, Google offered On2’s VP8 algorithm on a perpetually royalty-free basis, so that it could be readily used in open source projects.

MPEG LA sells licenses to various patented technologies. Video compression algorithms such as the widely used H.264 are usually covered by multiple patents held by multiple companies. MPEG LA works with these patent holders to pool them together and provide simple license agreements that cover the range of patents so that the algorithms can be licensed without having to negotiate with each company individually.

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CISPA: Experts agree, private info not needed for sharing cyber threats with gov’t

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If you were given a cloak of absolute immunity and then tasked to share cybersecurity threat information, would you take the extra time to strip out all personally identifiable information (PII) before passing it on to the government? Although no judge will look over your shoulder, no warrant will be required, and no one will smack your hand for sharing sensitive user data that is not required, would…
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which of these COMPUTER SECURITY statements do you AGREE / DISAGREE with the most?

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(not necessarily my opinions)

HIPS technology does not greatly increase computer security
Opera is as good as Firefox overall
windows firewall is as good as any free firewall
avira antivir is the best free anti virus program
vista is safer than xp
the rootkit threat is overblown
tracking cookies should be illegal
spybot s & d has seen its day come and go
the more firewalla you have running the safer you are
most web surfers do not take computer security seriously