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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy online

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 05, 2008 – 11:30PM CT Review The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet Daniel J. Solove Yale University Press 256 Pages Understanding Privacy Daniel J. Solove Harvard … Continue reading

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Google Trends – Malicious Hacker’s Best Friend

Via Mashable October 3, 2008 – 2:32 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder1 Comment According to cyber security company Webroot, the evil variety of hackers have started using Google Trends to lure unsuspecting people into a malware trap. It’s not really rocket … Continue reading

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Cyberbullying: new phenomenon or the playground gone online?

Via ARS Technica By John Timmer | Published: October 03, 2008 – 05:18AM CT As kids have started pursuing more of their social lives online, their parents have become increasingly concerned that they are taking their bad habits with them. But the … Continue reading

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Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China

Via the New York Times by JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 1, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations … Continue reading

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Microsoft tries to put fear of God into scareware vendors

Via ARS Technica By Joel Hruska  | Published: September 29, 2008 – 09:20PM CT Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn’t such a … Continue reading

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DHS docs reveal expanded border search discretion

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: September 23, 2008 – 09:25PM CT Internal Department of Homeland Security Documents obtained by civil rights groups reveal that, since 2000, Customs and Border Patrol guidelines have been loosened to allow border … Continue reading

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Avoid Pulling a Palin: How to Encrypt Your Email

Via Tech Crunch by Scott Merrill on September 22, 2008 Encryption scares a lot of people – me included – because it’s based on really complicated mathematics. Thankfully, the state of encryption software has advanced sufficiently in the last couple … Continue reading

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CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’

Via CNN.com By Larry Shaughnessy CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) — When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. A social-networking site for the world of spying … Continue reading

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CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’

Via CNN.com By Larry Shaughnessy CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) — When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. A social-networking site for the world of spying … Continue reading

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Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

Via ARS Technica By John Timmer | Published: September 23, 2008 – 05:15AM CT For most of us, security issues happen to “other people”—we block popup ads, we carefully examine dialog boxes and, for those of us on the Mac … Continue reading

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