Michael Gracie

Bill Gates kicked off the RSA Security Conference with an address to unveil Microsoft’s latest tool to fight internet security problems. Dubbed InfoCards, the web browsing thingamajig sounds like a cross between an Outlook vCard and an OS X keychain.

Along with disk encryption standards, these InfoCards are supposed to replace the passwords you enter into webforms, using encryption like SSL, but hopefully a little harder to get a hold of. The cards would reside virtually on the drive, and perform the exchange of personal information for you. Sounds great, if less than novel.

It is even better if you are “Government,” and already have a backdoor to all that encrypted data, which is exactly what one government is already lobbying Microsoft for.

I didn’t get any spam until I started Spamroll. I got very little until just a few months ago. Now I get plenty.

Bill Gates said the problem would be solved within two years, and as of this week, time’s up. Of course, the powers that be in Redmond say it depends on where your email box is, purporting to have solved “95%” of the problem with Hotmail.

I can’t even get a POP email through to Hotmail, while sitting on a Comcast line. I guess I’m getting all this spam because I’m not using the right service.