StealFrame at MySpace for now

Unfortunately due to technical and other problems stealframe.com does not excist anymore. We hope to recover some of the StealFrame Europe posts.

StealFrame is now located at MySpace as long as the new website isn't finished. You will find StealFrame at www.myspace.com/stealframe.

Blackmylar Europe becomes StealFrame Europe

Blackmylar Europe is the European version of Blackmylar.com. Blackmylar.com has become StealFrame.com. Therefore, Blackmylar Europe has become StealFrame Europe.

You willl find us from now on at www.stealframe.com, category Europe. All new posts can be found there, as well as future podcasts (StealFrame EuroCast).

In the meantime this site will continue on line, so you will be able to read back all the old posts from Blackmylar Europe. In time we will transfer these posts to StealFrame.com.

So thank you for your support here at Blackmylar Europe and we hope you will keep visiting and supporting us at StealFrame.com.

More information can be found in the first StealFrame Europe post.

Microsoft goes public with Office file format

Microsoft has decided to make the file formats of it's Office Suit public. The file formats of Word, Excell and PowerPoint will be released before the upcoming Office 12. At least that is what Microsoft is aiming for.

Microsoft wants the document formats of it's Office Open XML to have international recognition and hopes to get an ISO certification for it.

According to Microsoft the pressure from local governments has contributed to the attempt to publish it's document formats as an open standard.

If the Microsoft document format will become an open standard, this will be the end of close document formats at Microsoft.

Presidential medal for internet fathers

The fathers of internet, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is the highest civil award in the US.

Other prominent figures that will receive the medal are Muhammad Ali, three-time heavyweight-boxing champ; and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve of the US.

Kahn and Cerf are the developers of the TCP/IP protocols which are used to transmit traffic across the internet. They developed the protocol in 1973 for the US military.

The TCP/IP protocol today is the standard for all internet communication.

Today Robert Kahn is CEO for the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a non-profit organization for research and development of the national Information Infrastructure.

Vint Cerf is working for Google, today's largest Internet search company and is developing architectures and systems and standards for the next-generation applications.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be presented November 9 at the White House.

First official visit in 300 years

It takes some patience, but after 300 years a Russian leader pays an official visit to The Netherlands. Last Tuesday president Vladimir Putin arrived for a two day state visit.

First stop was the War Memorial on Dam Square where Putin and his wife remembered all Dutch casualties of wars. Next Putin met with high officials and important people of Dutch Corporate life.

Putin said he hopes that his visit will promote trade between Russia and The Netherlands. He claimed the Russians always have admired Dutch entrepreneurship.
Well, thankyouverymuch Mr. Putin!

Putin also paid a visit to Zaandam, where he visit the house in which the Russian tsar Peter the Great stayed some time at the end of the 17th century.

Wednesday evening Putin said his goodbyes to our Queen and off he went.

Well, I say that was worth waiting 300 years. Wasn't it?

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World of Warcraft peaks into your personal life

It appears that game producer Blizzard Entertainment installs spyware with people who play the game World of Warcraft on line, which is about 4.5 million players.

Every 15 seconds an on the fly downloaded program called the ' The Warden' is scanning the titles of all opened windows, email addresses from your MSN and url's of visited websites to name a few. Even the PGP key manager is not save and can be opened by ' The Warden'.

These accusations come from software programmer Greg Hoglund and the digital civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Hoglund describes in his weblog what the program ' The Warden' exactly does.

This so called 'anti cheating software' like Blizzard describes it is nothing more than a big breach of the privacy of the players, according to EFF.

The response of Blizzard is that it is doing nothing with the collected data.

Yeah, right....


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