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Secure Your Email With GnuPG PDF Print E-mail
Written by Doug Anger   
Wednesday, 25 April 2007

Last week’s article explained how to secure your email with X.509 certificates. The difficulty with X.509 is that proving a key belongs to who it says it belongs to can be difficult because only the issuer of the key (Thawte in last week’s article) can verify the identity associated with the key. The process of verifying your identity usually involves time and money.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 April 2007 )
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Let’s Go Camping! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Stephanie Rice   
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

The weather is warming up again, and soon people are going to start camping. For those who don’t live around here, and even for some who do, you may not know where to even start thinking about places to camp. After a bit of research, I found a list of the 100 Best Campgrounds in the World.

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Secure Your Email With X.509 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Doug Anger   
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

The Internet is insecure. Every email and instant message is passed along a whole string of servers between sender and recipient and is prone to being intercepted and/or modified in transit. Passwords transmitted over wireless connections can often be pulled out of the air by someone with a laptop nearby. Email messages can be forged to appear to come from any address using nothing more complex than Outlook Express or Thunderbird. This week begins a series of columns on securing your communications online by providing solutions to several key problems in communications security.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 April 2007 )
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Student Takes Third Place in Annual Programming Contest PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Mark Terwilliger   
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Competing as a team of one against teams of three student programmers, Lake Superior State University student Paul Carley of Sault Ste. Marie took third place at the eighth annual Northern Michigan University Programming Contest held recently in Marquette.

Carley, a senior from Sault Ste. Marie majoring in computer science, and 15 other LSSU students competed in the contest on March 31 with four other universities and 24 teams total.

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Save a Life, Get a Cookie PDF Print E-mail
Written by Meghan Bamberger   
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

One of the easiest and most effective ways to help those in your community and throughout the country is to give the gift of life.  Blood donation is always needed; approximately every two seconds an American needs to receive the gift of blood (that’s about 38,000 every day.) The American Red Cross works with over eight million blood donors, serving over 3,000 hospitals in the United States.

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