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Silent Circle on secure electronic communications: 'You may wish to avoid email altoget... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 19 Aug 13
     
    "As examples, Kowolowski noted that companies wanting to protect their intellectual property or individuals sending tax returns may be happy to use traditional PGP/SMIME technology to encrypt the body of their messages, but that "a freedom fighter working on an oppressive country" would be just as concerned about the metadata."
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Edward Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit forced to close by US security services ... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 10 Aug 13
     
    "The secure email service used by US whistleblower Edward Snowden has shut down rather than comply with orders from US security services - and is also legally barred from speaking out. The owner and operator of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, took the service down yesterday "for maintenance" before revealing today that the real reason was demands from US intelligence."
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Lavabit competitor Silent Circle shuts down its secure email service, destroys servers ... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 10 Aug 13
     
    "Silent Circle, a secure communications company founded by PGP creator Phil Zimmerman, has pre-emptively shut down its secure, encrypted email service and destroyed the servers so that it cannot be forced to reveal its customers' secrets to NSA spooks. "
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Lavabit founder has stopped using email: "If you knew what I know, you might not use it... - 0 views

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    "After discussing the general absurdity and creepiness of not being allowed to freely criticize the government for the order they brought to his company, he concludes by saying that he's stopped using email altogether, and "If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either." "
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You Should Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 04 Aug 13
     
    "Writing about Artificial Intelligence is a challenge. By and large, there are two directions to take when discussing the subject: focus on the truly remarkable achievements of the technology or dwell on the dangers of what could happen if machines reach a level of Sentient AI, in which self-aware machines reach human level intelligence). "
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Patient lost £18,000 legal battle over GP medical records | Politics | The Gu... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 03 Aug 13
     
    "Some are disturbed by the strategy to go "digital by default". Andrew Miller, chair of the Commons science and technology committee, wrote to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude with concerns that "as public services go online, the government may not keep up with advances in technology and that inadequacies in government software may lead to security vulnerabilities"."
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How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technolo... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 03 Aug 13
     
    "There's just one problem: the liking was fake, done by a team of low-paid workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, whose boss demanded just $15 per thousand "likes" at his "click farm". Workers punching the keys might be on a three-shift system, and be paid as little as $120 a year."
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UK set to ban Google Glass for drivers | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 01 Aug 13
     
    "A spokesman for the department told Stuff, a gadget magazine, that the device could distract drivers while they are behind the wheel, defining Glass as a similar distraction to a mobile phone."
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Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...mb-threats-twitter-journalists

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  • dr tech on 01 Aug 13
     
    "Grace Dent, a columnist for the Independent and former Guardian writer, received the same message as Freeman, which she took a screen grab of. It states: "A BOMB HAS BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE YOUR HOME. IT WILL GO OFF AT EXACTLY 10.47PM ON A TIMER AND TRIGGER DESTROYING EVERYTHING.""
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XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' | World ne... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...top-secret-program-online-data

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  • dr tech on 01 Aug 13
     
    "The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet."
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Tech Terms Censored Online in China - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 30 Jul 13
     
    "A new study released this month in First Monday uncovers more than 4,000 unique keywords censored over the last year and a half on Chinese instant messaging platforms. Focusing on Skype and the microblogging service Sina Weibo, the researchers cultivated their keyword list using reverse-engineering techniques such as packet sniffing, which captures and analyzes packets of data as they pass through a network."
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Who's accountable for Britain's Internet censorwall? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 29 Jul 13
     
    ""It seems Cameron and Perry have ignored official government policy, invented their own policy and forced it onto UK ISPs. With no legislation, and no complaints from Lib Dem MPS or the ISPs, we have completely unaccountable "nudge censorship" being forced onto the UK population with no debate.""
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Letters: Protecting our children from porn | Culture | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 29 Jul 13
     
    "There is no quick technical fix that will protect children - it needs education, responsible parenting and more resources for enforcing the laws that already exist. Dr Martyn Thomas Institution of Engineering and Technology"
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PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hou... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 27 Jul 13
     
    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.
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David Cameron's favourite censorware is built and maintained by Huawei - Boing Boing - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 27 Jul 13
     
    "Now the BBC reports that Homesafe was built by Huawei, the Chinese IT giant Huawei, founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer in China's People's Liberation Army. Huawei has been characterized by senior Western spooks as an arm of the Chinese intelligence service, conducting industrial espionage on its behalf. "
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UK censorwall will also block "terrorist content," "violence," "circumvention tools," "... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 27 Jul 13
     
    Huge chunks of the Internet will be effectively unreachable, and which sites go into the censorship bucket will be decided upon in secret, by unelected employees of big corporations, like China's Huawei. Sure, you can untick the box if you want, but as David Cameron's advisors will tell you, defaults are powerful and most users never change them.
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Bitcoin's successors: from Litecoin to Freicoin and onwards | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 25 Jun 13
     
    "Everyone in the cryptocurrency world has heard of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. But not many have heard of Peter Bushnell, the not-so-mysterious inventor of Feathercoin. On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers. One month later, nearly 7m of them have been mined"
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Google does not have to delete sensitive information, says European court | Technology ... - 0 views

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  • dr tech on 25 Jun 13
     
    "Google is not obliged to delete personal information from its search results, even when that information damages an individual's reputation, an adviser to the European court of justice has decided."
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