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How Apple Will Fight the Doj in Iphone Backdoor Crypto Case
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How Apple Will Fight the Doj in Iphone Backdoor Crypto Case

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."

Data Analysis of Github Contributions Reveals ­nexpected Gender Bias
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Data Analysis of Github Contributions Reveals ­nexpected Gender Bias

An analysis of millions of GitHub pull requests found women's contributions were accepted more frequently than men's, but only if they had gender-neutral profiles...

Europe's Top Court Mulls Legality of Hyperlinks to Copyrighted Content
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Europe's Top Court Mulls Legality of Hyperlinks to Copyrighted Content

Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...

Dutch Government: Encryption Good, Backdoors Bad
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Dutch Government: Encryption Good, Backdoors Bad

The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that "it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development...

In 2015, Promising Surveillance Cases Ran Into Legal Brick Walls
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In 2015, Promising Surveillance Cases Ran Into Legal Brick Walls

Today, the first Snowden disclosures in 2013 feel like a distant memory.

Ipv6 Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Reaching 10 Percent Deployment
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Ipv6 Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Reaching 10 Percent Deployment

Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.

Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters
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Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters

When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...

MIT ­ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
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MIT ­ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.

Nsa Advisory Sparks Concern of Secret Advance ­shering in Cryptoapocalypse
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Nsa Advisory Sparks Concern of Secret Advance ­shering in Cryptoapocalypse

In August, National Security Agency officials advised US agencies and businesses to prepare for a not-too-distant time when the cryptography protecting virtually...

How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections
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How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections

For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...

How Soviets ­sed IBM Selectric Keyloggers to Spy on ­S Diplomats
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How Soviets ­sed IBM Selectric Keyloggers to Spy on ­S Diplomats

A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's...

Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US

Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...

How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron

As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...

Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption
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Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption

Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...

Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse
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Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse

The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...

Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry

For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.

Shock European Court Decision: Websites Are Liable For ­sers' Comments
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Shock European Court Decision: Websites Are Liable For ­sers' Comments

In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...

Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Virtual Avatar
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Virtual Avatar

When Facebook bought Oculus VR back in March of 2014, many wondered exactly what the social network was going to do with it; let's face it, many of us are still wondering...

Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)
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Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)

As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...

Project Elysium Wants to ­se Vr to Revive Deceased Loved Ones
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Project Elysium Wants to ­se Vr to Revive Deceased Loved Ones

How far is too far when it comes to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality?
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