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Questions

1. Donald Peterson is the CEO and chairman of which telecommunications major?

2. Why is March 26, 1999, an important day in the history of Net security?

3. What was SHARE formed in 1955 about?

4. What happens when one types `about:mozilla' as the URL in Netscape Navigator?

5. Name the game that Ken Thompson (of UNIX fame) created so that his young son could have something to do on the computer.

6. What first did TX-0, built by MIT researchers in 1956, achieve?

7. Who developed the OSs Amoeba and Minix?

8. If Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, who is its COO?

9. Name the archetypal individuals used as examples in discussions of cryptographic protocols.

10. In hacker lingo, what is `microLenat' a unit of?

Answers

1. Avaya.

2. On that day, Melissa, the first Mass-Mailed Malware, swept the Internet.

3. It was an IBM users group.

4. One can see a passage from The Book of Mozilla.

5. Hunt the Wumpus.

6. It was the first general-purpose, programmable computer.

7. Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

8. Timothy D. Cook.

9. Alice and Bob.

10. The unit of bogosity.

V.V. Ramanan

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