As the Snowden leaks about NSA surveillance continue to trickle out, it’s easy to miss the fact that the NSA is now releasing hundreds of pages of damning documents about its activities.
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NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge
According to a report in Der Spiegel , the NSA has cracked the protection on Android, iOS and Blackberry devices, and can access protected files, including contacts and location history.
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NSA secretly broke smartphone security
UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, are blocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies.
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UK censorwall bans VPNs
It’s a sad day: the photoshopping remix site Worth1000 is shutting its doors , victim of being “technologically orphaned” after refactoring its codebase and then losing its programmer.
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Worth1000 shutting its doors
WinCo is a midwestern chain of worker-owned stores that consistently underprice WalMart, while still paying a living wage to their staff and decent prices to their suppliers.
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WinCo: worker-owned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages — and has lower prices than WalMart
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
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
Kwikset makes an incredibly popular line of reprogrammable locks that can be easily re-keyed, meaning that landlords don’t have to physically change the locks when their tenants move out.
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Attacking the popular Kwikset lock: open in 15 seconds with a screwdriver and a paper clip
Charlie writes, “There is a smoke shop in Scotia NY, owned by a young black man. There are many, many smoke shops in the capital region, but the rest are owned by white people.
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Head-shop CCTV catches police informant/undercover planting crack
A woman who valet-parked her car at Rochester airport returned to find a notice informing her that the valet had searched her car, on orders from the TSA.