Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, doesn't have a lot of regrets about his creation, but one thing does nag at him: the slashes -- specifically, those two slashes that come after the colon that comes after "http" at the beginning of Web addresses. Although they reflected the Unix filesystem on which HTTP addressing was based, he claims he could have fairly easily done without them; nevertheless, they "seemed like a good idea at the time."
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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