Government Informants Were All Around Silk Road
• economicpolicyjournal.comA major Silk Road drug dealer was flipped by the government just months before Silk Road was shutdown and Ross Ulbricht was arrested.
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Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens
• slate.comTwitter has overtaken Facebook as the social media network that is most important to teens, according to Piper Jaffray's semi-annual teen market research report.
Educators Wary of Tech Fixes for College Affordability Crisis
• http://www.commondreams.orgAs tuitions rise and the job market still slumps, many young college graduates are wrestling with the question of how to make their increasingly expensive educations pay off.
Is Zoox—And Its Autonomous Car—For Real?
• popularmechanics.com"AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CLASS OF ANIMAL COMING SOON."
The Story Of How Google Maps Reunited An Indian Orphan...
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Richard FeloniWhen he was five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India and was separated from his family.
Chinese Scientists Invent Lightbulbs That Emit Wi-Fi
• gizmodo.co.ukA group of Chinese scientists at Shanghai’s Fudan University have a bright idea: A lightbulb that produces its own Wi-Fi signal. According to Xinhua, the technology is called Li-Fi, and the prototype actually works better than the average connect
Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters
• ted.comThe line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. In this thought-provoking, slightly chilling talk, he shares details of r
What You Need to Know About Microsoft’s Spying Ways
Paul RosenbergI had a conversation the other day with the best and most knowledgeable computer guy I know. After discussing privacy threats, he made this statement: Everybody buying a Windows computer today is a traitor to humanity.
Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages
• ars technica"Apple's claim that they can't read end-to-end encrypted iMessage[s] is definitely not true," researchers from QuarksLab wrote in a white paper summarizing their findings. "As everyone suspected: yes they can!"
MPAA Claims Victory as File-Sharing Service IsoHunt Shuts Down
• Wired.comThe operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America, according to court records lodged
Let's develop high-speed deep sea Wi-Fi
• dvice.comThe world's oceans are a vast, untapped information reservoir.
Daily Paul Founder Offers To Fix Obamacare Website for 80 Bucks
• http://www.dailypaul.com, chris cudnoskiFounder and creator of the Daily Paul website - America's second-finest news source following the Onion - Michael Nystrom today announced in a low-cost internet press release that he would be willing to fix the Obamacare enrollment website for $80, p
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
• Washington PostThe NSA is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans. The collection program intercepts e-mail address books and “buddy lists”
Tour Lamborghini's Museum in Italy from your computer
• http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. WeissThose interested in doing an intimate tour of the Museo Lamborghini car museum would have traditionally had to trot to Lamborghini's headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.
Letters Desperately Needed For Jeremy Hammond’s Sentencing by 10/15 Reposted
• http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/let“You don’t have to know Jeremy to help, you just have to care” ~ Jeremy’s friend Grace said that at the #FreeHammond/#FreeBB fundraiser in NY in August. It is doubtless true. Jeremy Hammond is a prisoner pending sentencing for computer hacking
The Lavabit Brief: Breadth-Taking
• Simple JusticeTo make matters worse (for Levison), whose company existed to provide “secure” communications from the government, the order forbid him from informing his other customers of the government’s demands, and their communications would be revealed.
Alleged ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ Heads to New York in Silk Road Case
• http://www.wired.com, By Kim ZetterThe 29-year-old man accused of masterminding the notorious Silk Road drug forum will soon be on his way to New York.
How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking
• ars technica"Rather than try a brute force that makes sense to a computer but not to people, let's use human beings because people typically make these long passwords based on things that humans use," Dustin remembered thinking. "I basically utilized the
FBI Unable To Seize 600,000 Bitcoins From Silk Road Operator
• Daily Paul.comClosing down the Silk Road and arresting its alleged operator has left the FBI in uncharted territory.
Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet
• http://www.wired.com,By Bruce SchneierSince I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor, preferring certain cryptography over others, and using public-domain encryption wherever
Lured By Heavy Web Traffic, Mainstream Brands Are Running Ads On Adult Sites
• Business InsiderLast month, we told you how the food delivery service Eat24 used porn sites to advertise its offerings to the stay-at-home crowd without paying the higher advertising fees demanded by other publishers.
Epic fail: 99% of Obamacare applications can’t be processed, ‘nightmare scenario’ coming in January
• Prison PlanetObamacare is going to crash and burn from technical issues more than political concerns, it seems. You’ve probably already heard that virtually no one can sign up using the online Obamacare exchanges. The web forms are broken. The code is buggy. The
‘Sugar Daddy’ Dating Sites Say Government Shutdown A Huge Boost To Sign-Ups
• washington.cbslocal.comAn online dating website which bills itself as “The World’s Largest Sugar Daddy Dating Website” says it has recorded a 50 percent jump in average daily sign-ups since the start of the government shutdown.
Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Appears in Court
• www.wired.com“Dread Pirate Roberts”, clean-cut Ross William Ulbricht wore jail-issued red shirt and pants and ankle restraints before a U.S. magistrate judge. He conferred with his court-appointed attorney, then scanned the packed courtroom gallery before facing
Facebook To Maryland Teachers: Whatever You Say
• Simple JusticeThe targets of the new program include persons “not committing a crime… We’re not going to go after you, but we are going to take down the language off of Facebook, because there’s no redeeming societal value and it’s clearly hurting somebody.”
NSA repeatedly tries to unpeel Tor anonymity and spy on users, memos show
• ars technicaThe National Security Agency and its UK counterpart have made repeated and determined attempts to identify people using the Tor anonymity service, but the fundamental security remains intact, as top-secret documents published on Friday revealed.
Hackers Access Adobe Source Code, Personal Information of 2.9 Million Customers
• dailytech.com/The company doesn't think hackers got decrypted credit/debit card numbers
A Smartphone Charger That Sniffs for Malware
• Technologyreview.comScanning a smartphone for malware with a charger offers more protection than security apps ever can.
Silk Road: Random is the New Normal
• Simple JusticeWhat does come as a surprise is the government has attained the level of sophistication necessary to break Tor, to identify the users behind the curtain, to track their virtual existence back to the real world, where people have names, live in rented
IBM Cloud Storage Partner Nirvanix Files for Bankruptcy
• Wired.comThe company behind IBM’s storage cloud is indeed on the way out.
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