More Spying
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But will anything be done this time? That's the question.
Tags: Big Brother, NSA
But will anything be done this time? That's the question.
Tags: Big Brother, NSA
Carnegie Mellon University has released a report that privacy policies are too long and too complicated and regulation might be necessary to force companies to stop screwing around with people.
Tags: Big Business
A little translation for the rest of us.
Tags: Bailout, Congress
All I can say is "good". There needs to be consequences for companies that manipulate people for greed.
Tags: Countrywide, Predatory Lending
Simply put, media should be media, programs should be programs. Putting code or commands into media like movies, music, e-mail etc allows for viruses or worse and no one should have to worry about that. Well, worry.
If you put the new Blu-ray Iron Man movie into your computer it will try to connect to the Internet and download something (some horrible DRM program probably?).
Tags: Big Business, Blu-Ray, DRM, Product Hacking
The Hacker's Choice, a non-commercial group of computer security experts, has released a video showing a cloned passport being approved by a security scanner at a Dutch airport. When the reader scans the passport it is revealed to belong to one Elvis Aaron Presley, complete with picture.RFID is not ready. Every country that has tried to use it for identification has failed and miserable.
Tags: Identity Theft, Passports, RFID
Washington state (and Microsoft) are suing companies that use those fake security alerts to trick people into downloading and using their products. You know the ones. They usually say something like "Warning! Your computer is infected with viruses and you must download a quick security update to stop it".
Your first warning should be when they ask for your credit card number, but I don't hold that mistake against anyone. The real problem is the scumbag companies who utilize this kind of manipulation. It makes you wonder how they've gotten away with it for so long in the first place.
Tags: Microsoft, Washington State
Well I pretty much shot the content for this post out in the title. Well, I guess I'll just say, "Way to go Cali!" and "It's about time".
Tags: Big Business, California, Your Rights
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