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NSA Tailored Access Operations unit specializes in “getting the ungettable”, installing malware on diverted hardware shipments, capturing Windows crash data — The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks — The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon.
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NSA has 50-page catalog of exploits and backdoors in devices from Cisco, Huawei, Dell, Juniper, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and more — Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices — After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut — Amazon, NPD Group trumpet sales of the bare-bones laptops in 2013 to consumers and businesses — Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. — And that's bad news for Microsoft.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
If not the NSA, who should store the phone data? — A measure that President Obama is considering as a way to curb the National Security Agency's mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance — not only from the intelligence community but also from privacy advocates, the phone industry and some lawmakers.| David Kravets / Wired: |
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Hacker took over BBC server, tried to ‘sell’ access on Christmas Day — (Reuters) - A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.
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| Taylor Clark / The Atlantic Online: |
How Jesse Willms built an e-commerce operation the FTC says scammed consumers out of $467M — Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet — How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web — If you want to get a sense of Jesse Willms … | Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / Flurry Blog: |
Kindles saw 24x bump in activations on Christmas vs. other Dec. days, Apple saw 2.3x bump — Amazon Delivers A Great Christmas For Its Kindle — In less than a decade, connected devices have become an integral part of Christmas. They are commonly wished for and given as gifts …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
How would in-flight calling actually work? — The technology's already here — someone just has to flip the switch — Making phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air has been a hot-button topic of late, spurred on by recent comments made by Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large — Christopher Mims, writing for Quartz, “2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech”: … What a sad pile of piss-on-everything cynicism. — Was 2013 a seminal or particularly extraordinary year for technology? No, I'd say not.
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| Stanley White / Reuters: |
Sony to give up on sale of its battery unit: media — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp has decided not to sell its lithium-ion battery unit, media reported on Sunday, in a gamble that it can turn the business around with a weak yen and growing demand for smart phone batteries.| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Reddit anticipates profitability through expansion of Reddit Gifts — Reddit reaches for profits through a geek-culture bazaar — (Reuters) - Social news hub Reddit snagged an interview with Barack Obama last year. The big get for 2013 was reaching 90 million unique visitors a month …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As US fiber buildouts spur competion, benefiting consumers, threats to net neutrality loom — How US Internet service might get better—and worse—in 2014 — 2013, like just about every year before it, was the year nearly all of us complained about our Internet service. — “It's too slow!” we said.| CoinText.com: |
US Department of Treasury's FinCEN backtracks, says Bitcoin miners are not considered money transmitters and don't need to register with the agency — FinCEN Issues Bitcoin-Friendly Ruling for Miners — The US Department of Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) …
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