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Source: Techdirt

28 Stories

Virginia court claims that domain names aren’t actually property

Although you may consider yourself lucky to have registered a catchy domain name that drives plenty of traffic to your website, query whether the domain name is actually your property;...

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TSA officer admits that body scanners are only good for seeing you naked

Today, Politico Magazine published a tell-all expose of the TSA by a former officer. The article ridicules airport security, depicting scanners as futile and humiliating. But if you read between the lines, you can...

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Pentagon’s cyber force to expand its units

The U.S. military’s Cyber Command is about to receive the digital equivalent of faster ships and stronger missiles, but the force, only a few years in the making, is still...

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Pensioners sue IBM over reported NSA involvement

A pension investment group has sued IBM, claiming that the company failed to warn investors that sales in China would slow dramatically following revelations that IBM was helping the U.S....

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Is the USTR actively working against the interests of the American people?

The next great innovative companies come out of a world where giving the public exactly what it wants is key, and part of that is an openness and transparency that...

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Sweden’s National Housing Board orders a hotel made of ice to install fire alarms

Most modern governments seem to be incapable of allowing sensible exceptions to their rules even in instances where the implementation of those rules would be silly unneeded. In one such...

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The possible redundancy of the NSA’s infiltration

What we've been able to see through the speculations of journalists and the revelations of Edward Snowden may not even tell us a small part of the NSA network spying...

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Dear tech companies: The NSA is bad for you

It's hard to believe that many tech companies are waiting until now to realize that the activities the NSA has been perpetrating through and around them might actually be bad...

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NSA spins the Google/Yahoo hacking

They won't confirm it. They won't deny it. They won't acknowledge that it happened or that they knew what they were doing while they were doing it. This is spindoctoring...

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The entertainment industry is its own technological worst enemy

The harder you try to stifle innovation, the harder it will be to try to achieve it. This is a statement that sounds elementary, but the entertainment industry doesn't seem...

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