Privacy watchdogs, authors urge judge to reject Google Book Search settlement

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Read full story Related News: Military spends $10M to build Web sites aimed at squelching anti-US messages Can a series of customized Web sites written in specific, strategic foreign languages actually influence how the world perceives our government's policies? And by-the-way help fight the war on terror? Sounds like a stretch but that is indeed the goal of the project known as the Trans Regional Web Initiative. Thales nShield Connect offers enterprise-class key management Setting up the nShield to work with a new application involves getting that application to work with one of the supported key management standards, PKCS#11, Microsoft CryptoAPI/CNG, Jave JCE or OpenSSL, or with one of the other supported security protocols. This can often be somewhat complex, as these are not necessarily the native methods for encryption. 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