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...anonymous Web-surfing days of yore may soon return if Brandon K. Guttman ’00-’02 has his way. Guttman and his business partner Dan Houston ’01 recently unveiled the first commercial version of Jimmy Surf, software that promises to keep an Internet user’s net history a secret between him, his god and, well, Jimmy Surf...
...Jimmy Surf is billed as the one-stop shop for restoring near-total privacy to all Internet escapades. The program works by targeting cookies, which are digital tracking devices sent by websites to a user’s computer in order to follow the user’s movements on the Net. Unlike other privacy software, which simply prevents sites from sending cookies, Jimmy Surf actually permits a cookie to be sent by the website to your computer and then destroys it, so you still have complete access to all sites that require cookies to be enabled. In addition, Jimmy...
Perhaps the most ingenious of Jimmy Surf’s features, however, is that users access the program through www.jimmysurf.com, which means there are no Jimmy Surf desktop icons to indicate a covering of one’s Internet tracks. For doubting Thomases (or skeptical porn fiends, as it were) who want to witness Jimmy Surf work his magic before signing up for the $7.95 per month service, Guttman even offers a free downloadable two-week trial version. With over 11,000 downloads in the two months since its Internet debut, Jimmy Surf seems to be riding a veritable tsunami...
...stage and left their fans screaming for more. The quintet soon came back for their encore. After playing “Buddy Holly,” one of their most famous singles from their first album, they ended the show with a grand finale of “Surf Wax America.” Cuomo and Shriner left their guitar and bass in front of the amps in a wash of feedback as the band departed, this time for good. The crowd, on the other hand, was left breathlessly staring at the empty stage, mesmerised by the superb quality...
...helpful investment it would have been. For instance: Deutsche Telekom (whose network Malone was eyeing) now offers only 760-kilobit bandwidth to private users, whereas in the U.S. they can surf at the speed of 5 megabits. Again the basic mercantilist motto is this: "Don't help the consumer, protect the producer" - by keeping out foreign competition...