Security is the big question, and the answer is... er, privacy policies and smart cards. These, at least, were the only obvious concrete suggestions Bill Gates had to put forward when he opened Microsoft´s prestige Safenet 2000 conference in Redmond yesterday. And as he doesn´t seem to have mentioned the cookie defender patch for IE 5.5 Microsoft hurriedly invented earlier this year, it´s not entirely clear whether we´re going forward or backwards on the privacy front.

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