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FBI’s Online Wiretapping and your Computer
How the FBI’s online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked ‘The fundamental problem is that eavesdropping facilities are a double-edged sword. They make it easier for the U.S. government to spy on the bad guys. But they also make it easier for the bad guys to hack our computers and spy on us. And, […]
A Case of Legal Drone Intrusion
Creep stalks woman with drone — legally ‘…The mysterious drone operator may be perfectly right. Legislation on new technologies can often take some time to catch up with the technologies themselves, and it’s perfectly possible he was technically operating within the law. ‘As the Atlantic notes, talking to a Harvard public policy expert, there would […]
Boycott Monsanto with this Shopping App
Buycott Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart ‘…Burner created a mock interface for her app, but that’s as far as she got. She was waiting to find the right team to build out the back end, which could be complicated given often murky corporate ownership structures. ‘She wasn’t […]
The Anonymous Inbox by Aaron Swartz
The New Yorker finally launches Strongbox Use Strongbox to contact writers and editors at The New Yorker ‘Before his suicide in January, hacktivist Aaron Swartz was working on an ambitious project: an encrypted dead drop system that could receive and protect files from anonymous sources. Wired editor Kevin Poulsen, who met Swartz when his site […]
Was Photo of the Year Doctored?
‘A SWEDISH photographer has strongly defended himself against claims from a tech blogger that his gripping image, which won the prestigious 2013 World Press Photo of the Year, was a fake. ‘The story in extremetech.com said that Hansen “took a series of photos – and then later, realizing that his most dramatically situated photo was […]
Spiritual Advice on Counterhacking
Whosoever shall hack thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also Why hacking back is not wise ‘While cybersecurity is an integral part of CloudFlare’s business, Prince cautions that any interaction with attackers carries risk. “Some people out there are real criminals. They have a way of fighting back,” he says. ‘Prince […]
School Privatizers Buy State-Level Elections
‘Billing itself as “the nation’s voice for educational choice,” the American Federation for Children pushes forward students of color as the beneficiaries of its lobbying work, but the politicians they support are not exactly heroes of the civil-rights movement. ‘Dark money for TV and radio ads further obscures the school-choice issue. Often, these are ads […]
Global Time-lapse Map from 1984 to 2012
View how fast Las Vegas is overcrowding ‘Built from millions of satellite images and trillions of pixels, you can explore this global, zoomable time-lapse map as part of TIME’s new Timelapse project. View stunning phenomena such as the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, the deforestation of the Brazilian […]
Bill Gates: iPad Users are Frustrated
‘During a CNBC interview this morning, Gates continued to toe the party line insofar as he praised the benefits of Microsoft’s tablets and Windows 8 while explaining that iPad users are frustrated because they have trouble typing and creating documents. With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain share in what has been dominated by […]
Double-trouble for Taking Revenge on ex-Boss
If you will take revenge on one person, target wisely and don’t punish the innocents. This one got his revenge but doubled his troubles ‘Michael Meneses was employed at the company until January 2012, where he specialized in developing and customizing software used by the company to run its business operations, according to the FBI. […]
