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Public apathy over GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster | Technology | The Observer - 0 views
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"Now spool forward to the present. One of the things that baffles me is why more people are not alarmed by what Edward Snowden has been telling us about the scale and intrusiveness of internet surveillance. My hunch is that this is partly because - strangely - people can't relate the revelations to things they personally understand."
PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hou... - 0 views
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Justin Engler and Paul Vines will demo a robot called the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) at Defcon; it can work its way through every numeric screen-lock Android password in 19 hours.
Find the ungoogleable with crowdsourced search engine - tech - 04 December 2013 - New S... - 0 views
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DataSift is new kind of search engine that uses crowdsourced human intelligence to answer vague, complex or visual questions, even when the users are not sure what they are searching for.
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answered easily and quickly by human workers
New York Asks Cellphone Carriers to Explain Why They Rejected Antitheft Switch - 0 views
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SAN FRANCISCO - New York State's top prosecutor is investigating why American cellphone carriers have yet to embrace antitheft software on Samsung smartphones, raising questions about possible coordination among the biggest carriers.
GCHQ and NSA 'track Google cookies' - 0 views
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The latest Snowden leak suggests US and UK cyberspies are taking advantage of Google's proprietary cookie technology in an effort to track suspects.
Dutch IT contractor lays out the case for spying on everyone's wearables, always - Boin... - 0 views
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"A promo video from Pinkroccade, a prominent IT contractor to Dutch local governments, makes the case for spying on wearables (if your heart-rate rises because you're about to be mugged, the police could be alerted, and get GPS from your phone, find nearby phones belonging to people with criminal records, check the view from your Google Glass, and respond -- case closed). "
Egypt's New Internet Surveillance System Remains Shrouded in Mystery - 0 views
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"Three months passed. Then, on Wednesday, anonymous government officials reportedly confirmed that a local company called Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE or See Egypt) had won the bid to develop the system, which would allegedly allow the Egyptian government to sniff and analyze Internet and social media activity, as well as intercept Skype, WhatsApp and Viber conversations. "
10 things you need to know about biometrics technology | Technology | The Observer - 0 views
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"Schools in the UK have experimented with fingerprinting pupils then using that data for tasks including library books and lunch payments. However, the European Commission has questioned the practice, including whether schools can make it compulsory and whether parents can challenge it in court."
Snapchat Hacked: 'The Snappening' - Business Insider - 0 views
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"A giant database of intercepted Snapchat photos and videos has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years. Shocked users of the notorious chat forum 4chan are referring to the hack as "The Snappening," noting that this is far bigger than the iCloud hacks that recently targeted celebrities."
A Smile Detector and Other Apps You Need to Be Using | WIRED - 0 views
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"RECHO DOES ONE very simple, little thing: It lets you leave a voice message tied to a location. When other people using the app hit those coordinates, Recho will tell them there's something to listen to. You can use the app to discover different "rechoes" around you, if you actively want to listen in on someone's location-aware thoughts. You can also share interesting soundbytes with your Recho followers. It's a little weird and novel, but ultimately a new way to think about digital exploring a place."
My Stolen Life - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"In some ways, losing access to your home and documents is worse than having your home and documents physically destroyed."
Hackers Home in on Health, Education, Government Sectors | Cybersecurity | TechNewsWorld - 0 views
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New York healthcare provider, California's higher education system and the U.S. Department of Energy have become the latest targets of data bandits.
Scientists claim breakthrough in quest for invisibility technology - 0 views
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This is not necessarily to do with ITGS however it does bring up some similar issues that we discuss in class.
The 'Athens Affair' shows why we need encryption without backdoors | Trevor Timm | Comm... - 0 views
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"One of the biggest arguments against mandating backdoors in encryption is the fact that, even if you trust the United States government never to abuse that power (and who does?), other criminal hackers and foreign governments will be able to exploit the backdoor to use it themselves. A backdoor is an inherent vulnerability that other actors will attempt to find and try to use it for their own nefarious purposes as soon as they know it exists, putting all of our cybersecurity at risk. "
Can I refuse to have my child fingerprinted at school? | Emma Norton | Comment is free ... - 0 views
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