Memo From France: A Candidate Abroad, or an Innocent Abroad?
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The Socialist nominee in FranceÂs presidential election learned that the Middle East can be a dangerous place for a diplomatic debutante.
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Sen. John Kerry, who has relatives in France and speaks French, was traveling Friday to the country that was treated like a liability during his bid for the U.S. presidency.
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Celltrust developed its SecureSMS application so banks could deliver secure text messages to their customers&#39; mobile phones -- but the company&#39;s chief technology officer wonders whether French president Nicolas Sarkozy might like a copy of the software.Sarkozy sued a French magazine on Thursday for publishing a message it alleged he had sent by SMS (Short Message Service) to his ex-wife just days before his marriage to singer Carla Bruni earlier this month. The president accused the magazine of falsification, use of false documents and possession of stolen goods.If a text message is sent using SecureSMS then even if the phone is stolen, the secured messages on it cannot be read, Celltrust CTO Houman Shafiezadeh said at a press event in Barcelona, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress.That&#39;s because SecureSMS encrypts messages before transmission using a key unique to the sender, decodes them at a secure gateway and reencrypts using another key for delivery. A special application on the sender&#39;s and the recipient&#39;s phones stores the encrypted message, and will only decrypt and display it if the appropriate password is provided.SecureSMS can encrypt messages sent between two cell phones as long as both subscribers have set up accounts with Celltrust, Shafiezadeh said.Celltrust&#39;s target market, though, is big business: it hopes that banks will use its gateway and application software to secure the messages they send out to customers. The software has other advantages for banks: it provides confirmation of the reception and opening of secured messages, showing that whoever holds the phone also has the password.These confirmations, however, are sent by SMS and paid for by the phone subscriber. That makes the application more suitable for customers on tariffs allowing unlimited text messages.&quot;If you&#39;re paying 10 cents a message, I wouldn&#39;t recommend it,&quot; Shafiezadeh said.Celltrust is in talks with a number of U.S. banks to roll out the software in trials, he said. Finding enough customers with the right kinds of account, phone and SMS tariff is slowing things down, he said. Once the banks have identified the customers, the company will invite them to download the application, so that it can fine-tune the delivery process. The trials should begin in March, with a commercial service up and running by September, he said.The SecureSMS software is initially available as a J2EE applet for phones capable of running Java applications. Other versions, for Microsoft&#39;s Windows Mobile and for Qualcomm&#39;s Brew platform, will soon be ready.After that, Shafiezadeh said, it will be a race between Celltrust coders producing versions for Google&#39;s Android platform -- for which there is an SDK (software development kit) but no phones -- and for Apple&#39;s iPhone, on the market for almost eight months but with no official SDK available yet. That&#39;s frustrating for Shafiezadeh because Celltrust has issued its employees with iPhones.Other companies offer secure SMS tools, but for more limited ranges of handsets. Kryptext, in Brighton, England, offers an application by the same name that works only on phones running Symbian OS, while Finnish handset maker Benefon (now GeoSentric) offered handsets that could send encrypted text messages back in 2003.The Mobile World Congress, at the Fira de Barcelona, runs through Thursday.
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Sen. John Kerrys French connection was treated as a liability during his bid for the U.S. presidency.
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Commissioner has a mull A little-noticed system that allows printed documents to be tracked by government agents has gotten the attention of the EU Commissioner for Justice Freedom and Security, who says the technology may violate EU human rights guarantees.â¦
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The potential next president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants you to chuckle at his expense by visiting www.discosarko.com. The Web site unleashed on cyberspace as part of his election campaign shows a virtual ...Comment
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PARIS (CP) - A former German defence official wanted in his homeland for allegedly accepting a bribe in a party financing scandal told a French court Wednesday that he does not want to be extradited.
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ROME, Feb 9 (IPS) - Several European counties may soon be asked to  explain their "passivity" over illegal renditions by the  CIA through European airspace between 2001 and 2005.
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An al-Qaeda tape threatens France -- so, what else you got, Osama?
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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European Commission to propose foreign travelers into and out of Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted.
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: It's an unfashionable view, but the exercise of force abroad can be both useful and honourable - unlike lazily directed aid.
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LYON, France -- When Najat Vallaud Belkacem, a Moroccan Muslim immigrant, applied to France's most prestigious political science university, she recalled, her high school teachers told her she'd never be accepted: She wasn't rich, she wasn't from Paris -- she wasn't even from France.
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America&#39;s presidential campaign has moved from the furious to the near farcical, amid a &quot;dirty tricks&quot; controversy over the authenticity of 30-year-old documents dealing with
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U.S. citizens living abroad who want to participate in the 2008 primary elections have a number of options.
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The Agence France-Presse article on Palestinian poverty (Sept 7, 04) makes a mockery of journalistic ethics. The article movingly describes the suffering of the Palestinian people.
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The Daily Mail says it has two letters on Home Office note-paper it bills as a &quot;bombshell&quot; in the Blunkett affair. Letters written to his former lover&#39;s nanny Leoncia Casalme show a sudden change of mind over her visa application, the paper claims.