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US "suspected terrorist" database had 1.5M names added to it in past 5 years - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"99 percent of the names submitted to the list are accepted; the court called this "wildly loose." The database has grown from 227,932 names in 2009 to its current stratospheric heights. There is no official, public procedure for having your name removed from the list. The US government is seeking to end the trial by invoking state secrecy."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"99 percent of the names submitted to the list are accepted; the court called this "wildly loose." The database has grown from 227,932 names in 2009 to its current stratospheric heights. There is no official, public procedure for having your name removed from the list. The US government is seeking to end the trial by invoking state secrecy."</div>

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Algorithm knows you're drunk just by looking at you - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."</div>

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France's plan to legalize mass surveillance will give it the power to spy on the world ... - 0 views

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"After getting caught breaking its own laws with a mass surveillance program, the French government has introduced legislation that mirrors the NSA's rules, giving it the power to spy on all foreigners -- and any French people who happen to be swept up in the dragnet."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"After getting caught breaking its own laws with a mass surveillance program, the French government has introduced legislation that mirrors the NSA's rules, giving it the power to spy on all foreigners -- and any French people who happen to be swept up in the dragnet."</div>

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Photoshop Fail, People's Republic of China edition - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"a small city in China's central Anhui province, purporting to show vice-mayor Wang Hun pay a friendly visit to an elderly woman. There's only one problem: The image, which appears to show Wang floating above a particularly tiny woman, has clearly been modified."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"a small city in China's central Anhui province, purporting to show vice-mayor Wang Hun pay a friendly visit to an elderly woman. There's only one problem: The image, which appears to show Wang floating above a particularly tiny woman, has clearly been modified."</div>

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Wikipedia editor count down by a third - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"The volunteer workforce that built the project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ..."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The volunteer workforce that built the project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ..."</div>

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How the NSA searches the world's intercepted private communications - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"XKEYSCORE is a secret NSA program that indexes data slurped up from covert fiber-taps, hacked systems, and smartphones, including "full take" data and metadata. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"XKEYSCORE is a secret NSA program that indexes data slurped up from covert fiber-taps, hacked systems, and smartphones, including "full take" data and metadata. "</div>

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Two chatbots talk to each other: "I love crayons. But you are not dressed." - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"That's right, they're coming after us literally for a few splotches of ink. What companies like this do is broker works of art on behalf of actual photographers, but then engage in copyright trolling by threatening anyone who uses even a small piece of them. Increased computing power and more sophisticated algorithms allow them to do this with improved speed and "efficiency.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"That's right, they're coming after us literally for a few splotches of ink. What companies like this do is broker works of art on behalf of actual photographers, but then engage in copyright trolling by threatening anyone who uses even a small piece of them. Increased computing power and more sophisticated algorithms allow them to do this with improved speed and "efficiency.""</div>

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Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks - Bo... - 0 views

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dr tech on 09 Sep 15

"Many of these cameras have no easy, networked means of getting a firmware update, either, making their zeroday bugs into foreverday bugs. Some of these bugs were simple programmer error, but Philips, ah, Philips: they shipped an Internet-connected home spycam whose default root login was admin and /ADMIN/. Security. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Many of these cameras have no easy, networked means of getting a firmware update, either, making their zeroday bugs into foreverday bugs. Some of these bugs were simple programmer error, but Philips, ah, Philips: they shipped an Internet-connected home spycam whose default root login was admin and /ADMIN/. Security. "</div>

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"In some ways, losing access to your home and documents is worse than having your home and documents physically destroyed."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In some ways, losing access to your home and documents is worse than having your home and documents physically destroyed."</div>

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EFF scores a giant victory for fair use and dancing babies - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Lenz's and EFF's favor today, ruling that rightsholders must consider fair use before issuing takedowns. The court found that people whose creations were censored through DMCA abuse could sue the companies that filed the censorship demands, even if they couldn't show monetary damages from the censorship. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Lenz's and EFF's favor today, ruling that rightsholders must consider fair use before issuing takedowns. The court found that people whose creations were censored through DMCA abuse could sue the companies that filed the censorship demands, even if they couldn't show monetary damages from the censorship. "</div>

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Internet-connected hospital drug pumps vulnerable to remote lethal-dose attacks - Boing... - 0 views

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dr tech on 09 Jun 15

"Researcher Billy Rios (previously) has extended his work on vulnerabilities in hospital drug pumps, discovering a means by which their firmware can be remotely overwritten with new code that can result in lethal overdoses for patients. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Researcher Billy Rios (previously) has extended his work on vulnerabilities in hospital drug pumps, discovering a means by which their firmware can be remotely overwritten with new code that can result in lethal overdoses for patients. "</div>

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WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and "Afghan War Diaries" - Boing Boing - 0 views

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An interesting article, could affect alot of people also burn holes in your wallet.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An interesting article, could affect alot of people also burn holes in your wallet. </div>

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Wikileaks publishes CIA "Red Cell" memo on risks of US perceived as "exporter of terror... - 0 views

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Can you audit the software that goes in your body? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Australian government blocks out 90% of document on web-spying plans - Boing Boing - 0 views

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US "suspected terrorist" database had 1.5M names added to it in past 5 years - Boing Boing - 0 views

Algorithm knows you're drunk just by looking at you - Boing Boing - 0 views

France's plan to legalize mass surveillance will give it the power to spy on the world ... - 0 views

Photoshop Fail, People's Republic of China edition - Boing Boing - 0 views

Wikipedia editor count down by a third - Boing Boing - 0 views

How the NSA searches the world's intercepted private communications - Boing Boing - 0 views

Two chatbots talk to each other: "I love crayons. But you are not dressed." - Boing Boing - 0 views

Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches - Boing Boing - 0 views

Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks - Bo... - 0 views

My Stolen Life - Boing Boing - 0 views

EFF scores a giant victory for fair use and dancing babies - Boing Boing - 0 views

Internet-connected hospital drug pumps vulnerable to remote lethal-dose attacks - Boing... - 0 views

Windows 10 automatically spies on your children and sends you a dossier of their activi... - 0 views

Recording Industry Using Net Neutrality Debate To Try To Link Child Porn With Copyright... - 0 views

WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud - Boing Boing - 0 views

Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and "Afghan War Diaries" - Boing Boing - 0 views

Mobile operators signal end of flat-rate data tariffs as app use grows | Technology | g... - 0 views

Wikileaks publishes CIA "Red Cell" memo on risks of US perceived as "exporter of terror... - 0 views

Can you audit the software that goes in your body? - Boing Boing - 0 views

Australian government blocks out 90% of document on web-spying plans - Boing Boing - 0 views

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