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Oldest dot-com address sits sadly underused 30 years after its historic registration

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Someone had to go first, so on March 15, 1985, Lisp computer maker Symbolics, Inc., registered the Internet’s first dot-com address: Symbolics.com.

Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of that registration.

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The Cambridge-headquartered company went out of business about a decade ago (though remnants live on) and in August 2009 the Symbolics.com address was sold for an undisclosed sum to XF.com Investments, whose CEO Aron Meystedt said in a press release: “For us to own the first domain is very special to our company, and we feel blessed for having the ability to obtain this unique property.”

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Confronting Chinese Economic Cyber Espionage With WTO Litigation – New York Law Journal (registration)

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Confronting Chinese Economic Cyber Espionage With WTO Litigation
New York Law Journal (registration)
Chinese economic cyber espionage, government hacking into computer networks of companies to gain commercial advantages for Chinese firms, is one of the most complex issues confronting U.S. national security and foreign policy today. A creative legal …

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More bad cybersecurity news – top-tier malware Regin used for spying since 2008 – Lexology (registration)

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More bad cybersecurity news – top-tier malware Regin used for spying since 2008
Lexology (registration)
The multi-staged design of the malware is akin to that of other espionage tools that security researchers believe were the work of nation states, notably Flame, Stuxnet and Duqu — three pieces of malware that were used to spy on computers in Iran and …
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Chinese espionage latest target: Liquid Paper – Lexology (registration)

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Chinese espionage latest target: Liquid Paper
Lexology (registration)
Spell check features in word processing programs sent correction fluid the way of the buggy whip. Walter Liew and Robert Maegerle, however, saw a $ 28 million dollar payout to sell the secrets to, among other things, Liquid Paper. It is doubtful that …

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