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A Game By Any Other Name
by By Martin Riggenbach, TCS Game SIG Leader— Tucson Computer Society September 2000, jorga@azstarnet.com - December 02, 2000 at 13:12:22:
This summer in San Diego during the Southwest User Group Conference, I had the opportunity to listen to many interesting presentations by vendors including Adobe, MGI, Jasc, and Microsoft. I am very familiar with all these vendors and their products. One presentation that stood out in content and originality was Zeroknowledge. Zeroknowledge’s presenters, Liliana and Stefan, flew down from Montreal, Canada, to present Freedom, an Internet security program that shows amazing potential.Unlike many of the other companies’ reps, this was Liliana and Stefan’s first time presenting in front of such a large group. This fact, coupled with some technical difficulties, meant that their presentation got off to a rocky start.
The beginning of the presentation started with Stefan speaking in time with a movie. As is the rule, no matter how well you knew something before, you always forget when the time comes to speak in front of a large group. What takes real skill is being able to recover and finish strong, and Liliana and Stefan did just that.
When the movie finished, Stefan took to the podium to explain the Freedom Network and how it operates. One the technical difficulties had been that their notes had not been printed, so Stefan went on without his note cards. While still trying to regain his train of thought, someone yelled out, “Try speaking in French!”
This what just what he needed and after speaking in rapid and fluid French, he changed back into English and continued describing the product and what it did. Stefan and Liliana continued the presentation by alternating at the podium and by the end of the presentation, everyone in the room was enthusiastically asking questions.
The content and the way Stefan and Liliana faced difficulties made the presentation one of the freshest, most interesting, and entertaining presentations I have seen in a long time. Being able to see new companies and products presented by the product creators is what makes User Group Conferences so much fun.
Many people, gamers included, are worried or annoyed by cookies, spam E-mail, and massive collection and sale of personal information. This is why many of us are resorting to cookie killer programs and other security measures.
Freedom by Zeroknowledge (http://www.freedom. net) is one such measure. What this program does is bounce you off a bunch of different servers around the world, making you virtually untraceable and changing your IP address. It also lets you chose your nickname or “Nym” so you can have a cyber-identity, as well as encrypting your E-mail so it cannot be read until it gets to the computer is in meant to go to. All in all, this is an interesting program that deserves a look.
For more information on Freedom and Zeroknowledge, visit their web site and tell them you read about it in the TCS Journal. (Ed. Or the Orange Bytes.)Maybe if they hear from enough of us, we can persuade them to come to Tucson (or Orange, CA)and make a presentation this winter.
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