What sets Zfone apart from comparable systems is that it does not require a web of computers to hold the keys, or long numbers, used in most encryption schemes.
Taylor, who worked in a family business supplying and fitting gutters, encrypted his web of computers and storage devices, but police used state-of-the art technology to break his codes and access the material.
It's just one example of the web of computer technology that he lives in.
Residing in thousands of databases distributed worldwide, a growing portion of this vast resource is now accessible almost instantaneously via the Internet, the web of computer networks linking the global communities of researchers and, increasingly, nonacademic organizations.
But further defections could paralyze an organization that Mr. Assange says has 40 core volunteers and about 800 mostly unpaid followers to maintain a diffuse web of computer servers and to secure the system against attack — to guard against the kind of infiltration that WikiLeaks itself has used to generate its revelations.
For example, the World Wide Web is a global network of computers sharing documents connected by hyperlinks; road maps are renderings of city networks connected by highways; social networks are groups of people connected through friendships; cellular signaling pathways are groups of proteins connected through molecular interactions; et cetera.
Robert Bowman, chief executive of Cyberian Outpost (www.outpost.com), a Web retailer of computers and electronic goods, said his company was intensifying its efforts toward making a profit -- a goal he predicted the company would achieve "by the middle of next year".
A bargain? "I've always felt these portal deals were way too expensive and lock you in for way too long," says Darryl Peck, head of Cyberian Outpost, a Web seller of computers.
STEVE MANN, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs.
As much as 90% of a company's IT budget goes toward managing its spider web of servers, computers and software applications.
He's called "the King of Spam" among members of the internet's seedy underground, and now he's been caught by authorities — 24 year old Oleg Nikolaenko, aka "Docent," is the alleged owner of the "Mega-D" botnet, an enormous web of zombie-computers that collectively sends around 10 billion spam messages per day.
