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A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity.  The document, part of a program called "Communities Against Terrorism", lists the use of "anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address" as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity.  The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using "software to hide encrypted data in digital photos" or other media.  In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone "overly concerned about privacy" or attempting to "shield the screen from view of others" should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.

WikiLeaks' backers are now considering buying a boat so they can move their operations into international waters, according to a report from Fox News.

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Certain About Nothing In "US Corporates Shy to Offer Guidance," the Financial Times reports that those who are at the economy's front lines have a less than clear vision of where things are headed:

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Last week, the Iranian government apparently started a new censorship program that blocks encrypted Internet traffic. Even Iranians who had taken steps to evade government firewalls were being stymied-and the immediate impact can be seen in usage of the Tor network.

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The discovery of the previously unknown part of the molecule will be applied to the researchers' work on designing improved versions of a human blood vessel and on repairing skin damage, including burns.

A privacyscore estimates the privacy risk of using a website based on how they handle your personal and tracking data.

Why Facebook Is Never Safe By Adam Brereton Tags: wikileaks tor the internet technology jacob appelbaum anonymous adam brereton Want to know what a hacker, developer, activist and former Wikileaks wonk thinks about Facebook, the internet, and the future of computing? Read Adam Brereton's interview with Jacob Appelbaum

A way to print Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips right onto paper has been discovered by a team of scientists from University of Montpellier.

New legal limits in traffic for drugs other than alcohol : table showing the impairment based legislative limits and limits for graded sanctions for drugs other than alcohol, from Feb. 1, 2012. Credit: Copyright: Norwegian Institute of Public Health

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world's top-rated universities, has announced its first free course which can be studied and assessed completely online. An electronics course, beginning in March, will be the first prototype of an online project, known as MITx.

Facebook's pending initial public offering gives credence to the argument that personal data is the oil of the digital age. The company was built on a formula common to the technology industry: offer people a service, collect information about them as they use that service and use that information to sell advertising.

A massive new storyline will creepy-crawl across every aspect of the Dungeons & Dragons landscape this year, as the Demon Queen of Spiders and her drow minions rise from their underground domains to take on the surface world. Rise of the Underdark will impact D&D RPG books, organized play, novels, a new miniatures game and even D&D Online, the free-to-play MMORPG. Hope you like drow (or enjoy killing them).

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.

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