I know I should have posted this several days ago. I’m not really on the ball right now, so you’ll have to make do.
eBay/PayPal bought Verisign! I suspect that this will be a good thing – if you’re going to have a company that specializes in e-commerce (and does it well), you might as well have it specialize in web security too. Let’s hope that few of the Verisign policies change because of this…Edit: Perhaps PayPal isn’t as great as I thought it was.
On an unrelated note, Kyrgyzstan has given the US the go-ahead to use their bases for even more aid and bombing runs into Afghanistan. You may recall that around the time that school started, the Uzbekistani parliament unanimously voted to kick the US off its air bases, and the US has been looking for another place to launch missions from. The planes will have to fly through Tajikistani airspace, but that shouldn’t really be a problem. I’m not quite sure why Kyrgyzstan did this, except possibly that they needed the money. However, I’ve never really thought of the country as being particularly poor. Any insights?