Web-based Spookery

Invicta Networks has announced a new technology for creating secure websites.

Invicta Networks (www.invictanetworks.com) – a company that has on its board both a former CIA director and a former head of the KGB 8th Chief Directorate – has announced a new technology for creating secure websites. Established approaches to computer security – encryption, data scrambling, firewalls, and so on – are vulnerable to determined hackers, but Invicta is claiming that its ‘Variable Cyber Coordinates system’, which cloaks a site by shifting the IP address of its server up to several times per second, means that only surfers who are party to the predetermined pattern of the shifts will be able to access VCC-protected sites. Invicta begins shipping a beta of its system to paying customers at the end of June.

JJ King <jamie AT metamute.com> is contributing editor of Mute. His essay on ICANN is in the ‘main’ section of this issue. Futurefarming satire by contributing editors James Flint and Hari Kunzru is in the same section.VCC, from the horse’s mouth: [http://www.invictanetworks.com/]