The Wall Street Journal last week published an article reporting a connection between the US Central Intelligence Agency and a small internet company, SafeWeb, whose mission in life is to allow users to access any website with total anonymity.
Ovum's Gear warned: "Because of lack of centralised resource, the files shared can circumvent corporate firewalls by establishing a direct connection between an external PC and an internal PC. P2P based on a distributed computing model is basically...
Individual users should use the Internet Connection Firewall or some other personal firewall. The Internet Connection Firewall is a feature of Windows XP and Windows 2003 that limits the ways that a potential intruder could attack from the network.
The move in this direction began last June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple was shifting to Intel-based computers. Since then, speculation has grown about whether Apple would enable Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system to run...
While remote working once might have involved a hotel network connection for a road warrior's laptop, it is now far more likely to encompass other locations, in particular the home. Home broadband is rarely going to be used solely for business...
Where connectivity is available, this is being done through the use of email and web-sharing capabilities. The always-on connection just cannot be taken for granted, and the capability for the local educator to keep abreast of latest developments...