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Appealing amendments: NSA lawsuit gets another chance
Many citizens see Edward Snowden as the linchpin that finally led to a flood of challenges and lawsuits against the National Security Agency (NSA) for its indiscriminate search and seizure of Internet...
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Milking it: NSA goes after advertiser cookies for user data
This post was originally published on August 7, 2015. What's in a cookie? Used by browsers of all types, these small files are designed to help websites create tailored, curated experiences for netize...
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Is your Samsung Smart TV spying on you? - #WTFWednesday
Samsung Smart TVs are amazing huh? With voice commands and video calling built in, it’s like we’re in the 2015 predicted by Back to the Future II. No wonder families are buying them in the tens of...
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Watch the PGA Championship online
If you’re a golf fan, you probably wish you were in Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin for the 2015 PGA Championship — coming up August 13-16 — to watch returning champ Rory McIlroy defend h...
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GCHQ: Financial centers next for Russian hackers
It was all going so well. After decades of Cold War, slightly lukewarm interactions, and the occasionally civil gesture, the United States, Britain and Russia finally found some common ground. And the...
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5 parts of your body that betray your identity
This post was originally published on July 29, 2015. Biometrics is a double-edged sword. Sure, fingerprints and facial recognition can make it fun and easy to open doors, sign in to your phone, and...
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New tool helps journalists and activists detect governments’ snooping malware
Researchers at Rook Security have created a free tool to scan and detect a malware that is used by oppressive government regimes to spy on journalists and activists, according to Threatpost. Dubbed M...
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Possible Pakistani pigeon-spy probed by Punjab Police - #WTFWednesday
On the evening of May 27th, a barber in the Indian town of Pathankot, near the border of Pakistan, decided he wanted to keep a pigeon as a pet. Never mind why, or how he caught it. Just imagine his su...
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Spy Game: NSA caught spying on German and French allies
Nations must strike a precarious balance when it comes to spying and surveillance. Too much spying and citizens become uneasy, worried that global investigations will turn local and start infringing o...
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Game over: Hacking Team disclosure exposes spy agency playbooks
Who hacks the hackers? It's a question the founder of Hacking Team — a company which supplies its own version of surveillance malware to governments worldwide — is struggling to answer after the H...
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