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UK to science publishers: don’t follow recording industry down the tubes
There's been a growing push to get more scientific research out from behind paywalls. The federal government , private funding bodies, and a number of research institutions have all adopted policies that either..."Literally" the day he was arrested, hacker Sabu helped the FBI
It didn't take much time to turn Hector "Sabu" Monsegur into an FBI informant —just a few hours, in fact. “Since literally the day he was arrested, the defendant has been cooperating with...An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle
Photo: jadjadjad /Flickr Google’s public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans’ data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn’t quite mesh with what the search...Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the Los Angeles Times ....Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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