In simple terms, phishing is when someone else masquerades as ‘you’ by stealing your online authentication details. What happens later, is of course, entirely upto the individual who engages in phishing, right from an e-mail prank to use up your credit limits.

If you are looking to enhance security, devices based auto-passcode generator seem to be a decent option. For instance, a product like Aladdin’s e-Token PRO’s RSA 1024-bit key operations enable seamless integration into Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) architectures. eToken can generate and store users’ personal credentials, such as private keys, passwords and digital certificates, inside the protected environment of the Smartcard chip itself. Users’ private keys never leave the token.

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…thanks to ‘molecular gastronomy’. 

But is it more tasty? Some of the big foodies and renowned chefs think so.

Followers of molecular gastronomy look to understand the scientific processes behind cooking — for example, figuring out what temperature the egg yolk cooks at compared with the white or how a one degree difference in the oven can affect the roasting of beef. The movement has attracted not only restaurant vanguards but mainstream foodies with an intellectual curiosity such as Nick Spinelli, executive chef at the nation’s No. 1 foodmaker, Kraft Foods (KFT ). Even Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft (MSFT ), experiments with the concept in his own kitchen, which is decked out with high-tech gear. “We’re learning. We’re becoming better cooks,” says Dufresne. “It’s a misconception that we’re the crazy chefs in lab coats.”

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…. India is nearing a tipping point of economic transformation. The pace of change is not steady, but its direction is inexorable. Consider the current government, a coalition in which the Communist parties are crucial partners (and India’s communists are considerably more economically orthodox than the Chinese variety). Even so, the recent budget managed to continue privatization, open pensions and mining to foreign investment, and cut corporate taxes and tariffs.

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