Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found
  Xiaoyun Wang, a professor at Tsinghua University, and her two co-authors, Andrew Yao, a professor at Tsinghua University and Frances Yao, a professor at City University of Hong Kong–further simplifies the attack from 2^80 to a complexity of 2^63
  (tags: security encryption sha-1 crypto)
• Software by Rob : Using Technology to Fight Poverty (Ghana)
  Good essay on capitalist / tech enabled approaches to address long term economic development in poor countries
  (tags: africa ghana ruraldevelopment ict digitaldivide)
• John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Injects AdWords Into Magazine Market. Q: Why? A: Money.
  on Google’s test foray into selling print ads for magazines, with links to articles and sample page
  (tags: google advertising media)
• EastSouthWestNorth:  Purifying the Chinese Internet
  via billsdue: translated from Nanfang Weekend. A view from the people building and defending the Great Firewall of China
  (tags: china government internet privacy)

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