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Quiz: He said what? (an oddly informative news quiz)

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December 26, 2008, 9:59 AM — Who is welcoming newcomers to the digital economy? Whose relationship is has suddenly become complicated? Who pushed the boundaries of readability? Think you know? Take this week's quiz!

Rollover the ??? for answers.

The quotes

1. "I'm really glad to have it behind me. I think this is really what should have happened from the start."

2. "There are many, many consumers who for the first time will join the Internet on a Nokia device, and we want to give those people the opportunity to participate and join the digital economy, in a sense."

3. "I think this bug is a great example of 'you will never get the code 100% right, so multiple defenses are critical'."

4. "We have a fine and reasonable relationship. But I'd be lying if I said that things weren't more complicated than they used to be."

5. "Think of it as -- 'if your network gets a little slower, maybe a bad guy has physically inserted a device that is intercepting and retransmitting packets.' Sure, that's possible. Or perhaps you're routing through a slower path for one of a billion reasons."

6. "It turns out that it's necessary to preserve the size and outline of letters to keep them readable."

The quoted

A. John Lilly, Mozilla's CEO, on the company's relationship with Google after Google dumped Mozilla's Firefox as the default browser in its Google Pack application bundle and replaced it with its own Chrome browser.

B. IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky on a technique for figuring out whether someone is tampering with network communication patented by the National Security Agency.

C. Nokia's director of software and services sales, Tom Farrell, on the announcement that Nokia is now offering the beta version of its Mail on Ovi service worldwide in 12 languages.

D. Gerjon Zomer, co-founder of a Dutch company that has developed a new font that it says cuts ink usage by about 15 percent.

E. MIT student Zack Anderson following the announcement that he and his fellow student-hackers are now working to make the Boston transit system more secure. Anderson is one of three MIT students sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority over a talk the trio had planned to deliver at Defcon titled "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDs & Magstripes of Ticketing Systems."

F. Michael Howard, a principal security program manager at Microsoft, in a postmortem analysis of the most recent critical IE bug and why developers missed it.