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In Jon Udell’s latest post, The architecture of intermediation, he discusses the need for a feature which is sorely missing on del.icio.us / de.lirio.us: namely private bookmarks.

Well, having given just about all of the Social Bookmark Managers out there a spin, I’ve found, amongst other unique features, that both Jots and Feedmarker do provide this capability.

In fact, there’s a lot more to these services to warrant a more comprehensive post. As soon as I’ve done testing Feedmarker a little more, I plan to do just that.

Stay tuned.

Heads-up

The German tech magazine c’t has an important article in this regard:

How ATA security functions jeopardize your data

What if an unauthorized party were to lock a hard disk with a password? And what if that party was a virus? Then a set of simple tools won’t suffice to give you access to your data. The options would be to throw the disk away - or place it in the hands of someone who specializes in retrieving data.
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In light of the current state of affairs the ATA Security Feature Set is not much of a security boon, more like a security hole with a fairly large loop that needs to be closed through BIOS updates as soon as possible.