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Obama administratrion permits states to manage marijuana

Via Reuters “The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas – such as distribution to minors – and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution.”        

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The future past of the iWatch

Anil Dash offers a timeline of the legendary iWatch’s “entrance to the market” . June 17, 2014: Microsoft’s rumored return to watchmaking ships not as the leaked xWatch, but as the Surface Band.        

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NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens

The NSA is to cut 90% of its 1, 000 sysadmins in a bid to reduce the risk of leaks. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a network administrator, charged with keeping the machines running on the network of vast data-centers used by the NSA to harvest, store and analyze unimaginably large quantities of data.        

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NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens

Some copiers randomly change the numbers on documents

In Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents , a computer scientist called David Kriesel shows that the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 randomly changes the numbers in its scans.        

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Some copiers randomly change the numbers on documents

Whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmers

A pair of crooks in Oklahoma made more than $400, 000 with a whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmer that they installed in Wal-Mart gas stations, using rental cars while they were doing the installation.        

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Google experimenting with spy-resistant encrypted Google Drive

CNet’s Declan McCullagh reports on a rumor that Google is testing a system for encrypting its users’ files on Google Drive; they are reportedly considering the move as a means of making it harder for government spies to harvest user-data.        

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