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Sat, 19 May 2012 22:15:53 -0400

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Addiction fed! @waffletruck (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:49 -0400

Addiction fed! @waffletruck (Taken with instagram)

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Thu, 17 May 2012 20:16:46 -0400

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Sun, 13 May 2012 16:29:55 -0400

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Sat, 12 May 2012 18:17:18 -0400

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Fri, 11 May 2012 16:15:09 -0400

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Fri, 11 May 2012 15:42:08 -0400

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Fri, 11 May 2012 14:22:39 -0400

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Fri, 11 May 2012 02:31:03 -0400

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Thousands of Twitter passwords allegedly exposed

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:07:56 -0400

Thousands of Twitter passwords allegedly exposed:

55,000 Twitter account names and passwords were, it was claimed last night, published on Pastebin on 7 May. The list ran over over five separate pages on the document publishing platform. Twitter confirmed it was looking into the situation and said it was resetting the passwords of affected accounts. Later examination of the list by Twitter revealed that it contained 20,000 duplicates, suspended spam accounts and incorrect login credentials.

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Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner 'Vulnerabilities'

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:24:10 -0400

Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner 'Vulnerabilities':

Federal investigators “identified vulnerabilities in the screening process” at domestic airports using so-called “full body scanners,” according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report. DHS has spent nearly $90 million replacing traditional magnetometers with controversial X-ray body scanning machines that are intended to detect items that could be missed by a metal detector.

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Threat Level - Privacy, Crime and Security Online

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:36:04 -0400

Threat Level - Privacy, Crime and Security Online:

In the battle to prevent law enforcement from collecting data about the activities of users online for fishing expeditions, there are few tools available in the arsenal of accountholders. Which makes it all the more important for internet companies like Twitter, Google and others to fight back on behalf of users. That’s exactly what Twitter did when it filed a surprisingly feisty motion (.pdf) this week in New York City Criminal Court to quash a court order demanding that it hand over information to law enforcement about one of its account holders — an activist who participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests — as well as Tweets that he allegedly posted to the account over a three-month period. The company stepped in with the motion after the account holder lost his own bid to quash the order.

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Exiled Americans' Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day in Court

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:23:24 -0400

Exiled Americans' Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day in Court:

About a dozen U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who cannot fly to or from the United States because they are on the so-called “no-fly list” will finally have their case heard by a federal appeals court Friday. The two-year-old suit claims the plaintiffs, who include two retired U.S. military veterans stranded in Egypt and Colombia, have been unconstitutionally barred from flying without being told why or provided a meaningful chance to clear their names.

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We lost a Beatle

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:00 -0400

We lost a Beatle:

Hey Listen: There WAS no fucking Google.

In 1986, when my crew of eleven-year-olds discovered The Beasties’ encrypted vinyl doctrine, we had our work cut out for us. We couldn’t just type their lyrics into some futuristic machine and have the meanings handed back—each crass little Easter egg had to be decoded by perverted detective work, or by relying on older brothers and irresponsible doormen to tell us what the hell it meant:

How can he recognize a girlie from the back of her head?

They all switch places when he rings the bell? Sounds fucked-up like naked Twister maybe?

Rolled up to Wooley? Who the fuck is that?

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Taken with instagram

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:19:44 -0400

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MI6 Codebreaker Attended U.S. Security Conference Before His Death

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:33:00 -0400

MI6 Codebreaker Attended U.S. Security Conference Before His Death:

A top British codebreaker who died a mysterious death in his flat two years ago had just returned from a computer security conference in the United States before his death, according to information disclosed during an inquest this week. The body of Gareth Williams, a codebreaker with Britain’s MI6 spy agency, was discovered stuffed into a sports bag in his bathtub on Aug. 23, 2010, though he’s believed to have been killed Aug. 15. Williams had just returned to London on Aug. 11 after spending six weeks in the United States, where he attended the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas as part of a contingent of British spies, according to witnesses who spoke at the inquest. He attended Black Hat in 2008 as well.

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Make Every Day a Day Against DRM

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400

Make Every Day a Day Against DRM:

Today, we join the Free Software Foundation in celebrating a Day Against DRM. DRM software restricts the way users can interact with content, which hits close to home for an organization like EFF. Even worse, “anti-circumvention” laws that regulate whether users can bypass DRM, like section 1201 of the DMCA, effectively give that software the force of law. A decade ago, most of the major players in the music industry were committed to using DRM on their products, restricting the devices users could use to play the songs they had purchased. Since then, that practice has all but disappeared, giving choice back to users and opening the market for more innovation.

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