The VX2258wm features full HD resolution at 1080p, as well as compatibility with any device supporting the High Bandwidth Digital Protection (HBDP) copy protection system.
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This year saw the widespread adoption of a tactic for hiding malware delivery sites known as "fast flux, " says Laura Mather, a researcher at the Anti-Phishing Working Group committee and a senior scientist with digital brand protection firm MarkMonitor.
Similarly, if the entertainment industry got its act together, it might be able to stop Microsoft defining the standard for digital copy-protection.
Also, the system is being designed specifically for Project RAY devices and specific user identities to ensure digital rights management protection for copyrighted material.
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Yet their antiquated control systems lack protection against digital intrusion, providing an easy target.
Or will Regulation E, the statute that provides consumer protection for digital banking, be changed in 2012?
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This fallout arguably has now overshadowed the underlying cheating scandal, has positioned Harvard as insensitive with respect to the protection of digital information, and has frayed the relationship between the University and its faculty.
As the content owners were promoting legal protection for digital locks in the 1990s, the ISPs were supporting legal frameworks that treated them as the equivalent of common carriers that transferred data across their networks without regard for the content itself.
In a hearing last month, Napster lost its attempt to portray itself as a "mere conduit" for information, which would have granted it protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
With the growing popularity of digital media and pay-for-download content, that scenario is made more difficult thanks to digital rights management copy-protection schemes, abbreviated as DRM, that make it nearly impossible to move or copy our music, movies and TV shows to the different devices we use every day.
It will also update the law to introduce new protection for consumer who buy digital content, such as e-books, digital music, games and software.
Nor does the advent of digital technology strengthen the case for extending the period of protection.
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Personal data protection therefore plays a central role in the Digital Agenda for Europe.
Today's witness protection program faces the added burdens of the digital age.
Meanwhile, the rules are being tightened in Europe, where the European Parliament has endorsed a copyright directive that, like America's existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act, would give rights-holders more protection and consumers less choice.
Digital technology slashes such costs, and thus reduces the argument for protection.
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More than 80% of these digital clunkers are dumped in landfills or incinerated, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Critics of Twitter say the service is vulnerable to unauthorized messages because the company hasn't widely implemented "two-factor authentication, " an extra layer of protection to ensure a person who enters a password to a digital service is the authorized user.
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Adding PUF technology significantly improves the chip's protection from reverse engineering attacks, as it removes the permanent presence of the digital encryption key on the device.
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Digital technology seems to strengthen the argument: by making copying easier, it seems to demand greater protection in return.
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Microsoft clearly sees customer concerns about privacy in the digital age as a business opportunity: Give consumers something they say they want in the form of greater sense of protection as they navigate the online world.
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