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Among the Nsa's Own Tips For Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...
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The Making of Facebook’s Graph Search
Graph Search could help Facebook grow from a tool for entertainment and communication into a search tool that could challenge Google's search dominance.
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How to Share Scientific Data
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...
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Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.
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How Wearable Technology Could Transform Business
Once upon a time seeing your life flash before your eyes was something people did their best to avoid. The arrival of Google Glass seems to have changed that.
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Nsa Claims It 'touches' Only 1.6 Percent of Internet Traffic
Just hours after President Obama defended the National Security Agency's activities, the foreign surveillance agency released a document in which it claims to review...
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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Nsa to Cut System Administrators By 90 Percent to Limit Data Access
The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent...
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Nasa Working on Tech to Take Humans to Mars – and Bring Them Back
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on the technologies needed to take astronauts to Mars and back.
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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N.s.a. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.s.
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' email and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people...
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Former Nsa Chief on Latest Leaked Dragnet Spy Program: It's Real, and It's Spectacular
Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet,...
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Users of Hidden Net Advised to Ditch Windows
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.
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Fbi Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...
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Google's Data-Trove Dance
In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale...
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They Know Much More Than You Think
In mid-May, Edward Snowden, an American in his late twenties, walked through the onyx entrance of the Mira Hotel on Nathan Road in Hong Kong and checked in.
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Apps That Know What You Want, Before You Do
In Hollywood, there are umbrella holders. Outside corner offices, there are people who know exactly how much cream to pour in the boss's coffee. In British castles...
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