榮譽獎: Minesweeper
榮譽獎: SMS

第十名: Oracle database

第九名: PGP

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) brought encryption to the masses. It enabled people to ensure their privacy quickly and simply. The world's repressive regimes and intelligence agencies hated Zimmermann's guts I'm sure.

The US government spent three years investigating if PGP should be classed as a munition and banned from export. Zimmermann's defence was masterly. He decided to publish the PGP source code in a book, allowing anyone access to it. The program was also freely available on the internet. In the end the government threw up its hands, realising the horse had well and truly bolted.

PGP is still the gold standard of encryption packages and no-one it seems can break it successfully. It has given privacy to us all, privacy that would otherwise have gone long ago.

PGP was a remarkable bit of code. The program allowed average users to encrypt data on a level that even government security systems were hard pressed to match. This was not welcome news to officials, who worried that PGP could be used by paedophiles or terrorists to encrypt data and hide evidence from authorities.

In the end, however, PGP really is a great tool. One has to wonder just how many billions of dollars could have been saved in recent years had certain individuals and organisations opted to use PGP to lock down employee and customer data.

第八名: Apache

第七名: Microsoft Office

第六名: Dr. Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit

第五名: Adobe Photoshop

第四名: SNDMSG

第三名: Lotus 1-2-3

第二名: Quark Xpress

第一名: Mosaic

詳細資料來源: http://www.itnews.com.au/Tools/Print.aspx?CIID=146459
http://www.asiapeak.com/pgp.php

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