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Homeland Security spent $430M on radios its employees don’t know how to use
Nick Getting the agencies responsible for national security to communicate better was one of the main reasons the Department of Homeland Security was created after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But according...Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic
Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. Google An unknown company's four-year campaign to...Week in tech: hacktivism, Slowloris, warrantless spying, and insecure keys
From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back : Governments around the world routinely track and monitor cell phones and Internet use. Activists—some funded by the US government—are fighting back with...Glass Houses: In Defense of CNET’s Secure Software Installer, and the Irony of Ad-Supported Critics
Ghacks criticizes Cnet's software installer and promotes a user script that replaces its Secure Software Installer links with direct download links, but ignores the obvious and ironic: Download.com already offers direct download links and Ghacks...µTorrent 3.0 Beta – Drop Files to Share, Run from USB
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