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Privacy: Just Do It
An article on the PIPEDA Canadian privacy legislation published in the January 2004 Information Highways Magazine.
Keeping friends close: How ethical hacking can help enterprise keep enemies at bay
An article on Ethical Hacking written for Information Highways Magazine.
A Moment of Your CPU Time, Please
An article on Grid Computing written for Information Highways Magazine.
e-Content Security: Dare to Say Yes
An article in Information Highways magazine on managing the tradeoffs between security and accessibility for on-line content.
Response to Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright
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This paper was prepared and submitted to the Canadian federal government in response to a request for input to policy makers concerning the evolution of copyright in the digital era. The motivation for the submission was twofold: to ensure that there was a realistic technical input to the process, and to oppose emulation of unenlightened American legislation such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Fast Company's NetActive Story
This article is not by Gord but it is about him, and the rest of the team that conceived the initial NetActive technology, and fostered the spin out of NetActive from Nortel.
The Unbearable Lightness of Content
(Powerpoint Format)This Powerpoint presentation was delivered as an invited speaker to a "Tech Talk" on Security staged by the Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation. The theme is that the protection of digital media is difficult, but that Content Providers and their customers must go forward anyway, experimenting to determine which combinations of technology and business models provide them with a net benefit from online distribution channels. It's dated now, but the theme still holds.
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The ICE Specification
This document, the Information and Content Exchange Protocol, was authored by a multi-company team including Gord, and submitted to the W3C. It is an early example of the standardized application of XML to "open up" previously proprietary network-based data exchange mechanisms.
Online Content Distribution - Time to Get it Right !
(MS Word Format)If downloading digital goods over the internet is such a great idea, how come practically no-one is making any money doing it ?
This paper explores the answers, which have as much to do with law, politics and business - all of which move very slowly- as they do with technology. Things have improved a bit since this paper was written... but not enough !
The Rocky Road to Bandwidth Utopia
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This year-2000 paper presented a counterpoint to the then-dominant hype about infinite Internet bandwidth and the limitless services, such as IP video-on-demand and streaming software, that the bandwidth was to enable. The commercial point of the paper was that NetActive's technology, being bandwidth-agnostic, was a logical choice for consumer software. Since then, it has become clear that visions such as mass-market Internet-based IP VOD were misguided, and that most IP-based digital content programs are better off using non-real-time delivery whenever possible.