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How Ladar Levison and a convicted hacker aim to encrypt emails, including to and from fields, with Dark Mail — A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying — The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History — Five billion dollars. — That's how much Amazon.com (AMZN) will rake in from its cloud computing business this year, according to a new estimate from Pacific Crest Securities. If true, it's an incredible figure.| John Napier Tye / Washington Post: |
Meet Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans — In March I received a call from the White House counsel's office regarding a speech I had prepared for my boss at the State Department. The speech was about the impact that the disclosure …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Sites like Travelocity pass full plaintext credit card numbers and IP addresses to DHS, which retains them for years — Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers — FOIA request turns up 9 years of records, including plaintext credit card numbers.
Tweets: @jwilkins, @ashk4n, @mikedoherty_ca and @mikedoherty_ca
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New search engine indexes records from data breaches, mostly from sites young hackers frequent — Even Script Kids Have a Right to Be Forgotten — Indexeus, a new search engine that indexes user account information acquired from more than 100 recent data breaches, has caught many in the hacker underground off-guard.| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google and Samsung's relationship continues to worsen, this time over wearables — According to a new report out of The Information, the already tense relationship between Samsung and Google has begun to worsen thanks to both of their own lines of wearables.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Kindle Unlimited: worth it if you buy 12+ books/year and find the limited catalogue appealing — Is Kindle Unlimited worth it? — Some things to think about before you sign up for Amazon's latest service. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) — Amazon.com introduced a new subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, on Friday.| Katie Roof / Fox Business: |
With huge rounds for Uber and Lyft, VCs invested $13B in Q2 2014, the most since Q1 2001 — Most Venture Funding Since 2001 — The second quarter of this year saw the most U.S. venture funding since the dotcom boom days, according to data from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
With 1M Sold In The Last Quarter, Google's Chromebooks Are A Hit With Schools — During its earnings call this week, Google announced that it — and its partners — sold a million Chromebooks to schools in the last quarter. Overall PC sales worldwide were about 76 million in the last quarter … | Frank Konkel / GovExec.com: |
How the CIA's $600M deal with Amazon Web Services will enable 17 federal agencies to cooperate — How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence — National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia Trevor Paglen — The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest.
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The Pirate Bay says unique visitors doubled since 2011 despite blockades in several countries — Pirate Bay Traffic Doubles Despite ISP Blockades — The Pirate Bay is without doubt one of the most censored websites on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers …
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| Evelyn Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
GitHub incident shows how rising startups often lack the HR support to deal with office imbroglios — Incident Shows How Rising Startups Are Often Ill-Equipped to Deal With Complex, Inter-Office Dynamics — One anonymous post turned the world of GitHub, a San Francisco-based software startup, inside out.
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