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Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests…
The FBI’s effort has been prompted not by DOJ concerns, but by Silicon Valley companies refusing to share anything beyond the basic subscriber information…
How the Internet Works: Submarine Fibre, Brains in Jars, and Coaxial Cables…
A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site…
Ransomware ‘Flocker’ Capable of Locking Smart TVs…
If a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventually affect the others, too…
Where Google Does Not Go: What is Hidden Underneath Open Websites…
The desire to find out what secrets are hidden in the web has led to the emergence of a community of so-called NetStalkers…
How a College Student Tricked 17k Coders Into Running His Sketchy Script…
Infecting military and government software engineers is easier than you may think…
Manners Maketh Nan: Google Praises 86-Year-Old for Polite Internet Searches…
Grandson says May Ashworth believed she was writing to a person at Google HQ when typing in search queries…
FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must be Kept Secret…
FBI has successfully convinced a federal judge to block the disclosure of where the bureau has attached surveillance cams on Seattle utility poles…
The FBI Has Collected Over 411M Photos for Its Facial Recognition System…
The bureau has compiled over 411 million photos, including more than 173 million driver’s license photos, as part of the new biometric effort…
Open to Inspection: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Age of Surveillance…
By now it goes without saying or objection in most quarters of a once freedom-loving and democratic society that our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness are closely…
New Startup That Sends Dossiers On Your Private Social Media Profiles To Potential Landlords Should Be Illegal…
A new startup wants to take a “deep dive” into the private social media activity of prospective tenants—their chats, check-ins, how many times they’ve posted words like…
Bankrupting Gawker Over a Grudge Isn’t Justice. It’s Censorship…
Though Gawker’s chapter 11 filing may not end it, the fact that a personal vendetta caused the act sets a chilling precedent…
As Silicon Valley Lays Plans to Colonize Mars, Researchers Offer a Blueprint for Governing It…
No political system exists to manage these new arrivals—and if humans indeed colonize Mars in the 21st century, we’re going to need one soon…
LinkedIn Soars on Deal to Sell Microsoft for $26.2B…
Shares of LinkedIn Corp. jumped nearly 50% Monday after the company said Microsoft will buy it in a $26.2 billion deal that would merge…
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Facing Data Deluge, Secret U.K. Spying Report Warned of Intelligence Failure…
A secret report warned that British spies may have put lives at risk because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed…
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New Intelligence Bill Gives FBI More Secret Surveillance Power…
A Senate bill published late Monday night includes a new provision that would give the FBI more power to issue secret demands…
Google Accused of Manipulating Searches, Burying Negative Stories About Hillary…
An explosive report released Thursday suggests that Google manipulated its search engine to boost Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton by burying…
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Twitter Locks Some Accounts After 32M Passwords Appear on Dark Web…
Twitter has responded to reports indicating that tens of millions of usernames and passwords for the social media service are currently available on the dark web…
U.S. Endorses Plan to Cede Internet Oversight…
The plan aims to maintain Internet governance under a “multi-stakeholder” model which avoids control of the online ecosystem by any single governmental body…
Petraeus Leaked Top Secret Information To Reporters, Escaped Consequences…
An unsealed affidavit shows David Petraeus leaked top secret information to Washington Post reporters, in addition to lying to the FBI and improperly possessing…