Source: Theguardian
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Fingerprint spoofing on remote wipe could leave iPhone 5S vulnerable
The future of security likely lies in biometrics of some sort, but the problems that have plagued the iPhone 5S and their fingerprint unlocking option have many security companies showing...
Tor privacy network targeted by NSA, GCHQ
The spy organizations for the United States and the United Kingdom both targeted Tor, a private network that allows users to surf the web anonymously. Now, they're upset and they...
Secret files – codenamed Marina – show NSA keeps metadata for a year
Life patterns are within the hands of the NSA regardless of whether you're a person of interest or not according to further revelations about the government's internal surveillance program. The...
Even Samsung thinks their Gear is worthless
The smartwatch revolution is just beginning and the first casualty may have already been logged. Samsung admits their Gear "lacks something special" and is likely to fail. Bulky, sluggish and...
Private mission delivering supplies to ISS delayed
With NASA dumping the space shuttle program, they needed an alternative method of delivering supplies to the International Space Station. They contracted Space X and Orbital Sciences to complete the...
Brazil wants the US internet out of their country… and everywhere else
The NSA spying operations weren't the catalyst, but they may be the last straw. Now, Brazil's government is expected to reach out to the United Nations to reduce or eliminate...
Eric Schmidt on spying: ‘the nature of our society’
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry's call for greater transparency from the US government over surveillance on Friday, but declined to "pass judgment" on American...
Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets
Mark Zuckerberg joins Mayer in hitting back at critics of tech companies, saying US government did 'bad job' of balancing people's privacy and duty to protect. Marissa Mayer, the CEO...
NSA shares intelligence data with Israel
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data withIsrael without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details...
How US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and...
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back.
Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us. By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillance platform, the NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. The...
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