Techmeme: Setting the Record Straight on False Accusations (Blake Lawit/Official LinkedIn Blog)

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September 22, 2013, 1:55 PM

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New York Times:

NYT Editorial Board: NSA's “back doors and special access routes are a terrible idea” — Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors — In 2006, a federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, helped build an international encryption system to help countries and industries fend off computer hacking and theft.

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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’ — The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues.

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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:

Close ties between White House, NSA spying review

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Luke Reimer / Inside BlackBerry:

BlackBerry pulls BBM app from iOS App Store and delays Android release after Android app leaks — BBM for Android and iPhone Update — Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online. The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already …

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV 6.0 update pulled after reports of bricking and networking issues — Devices on Apple TV 5.3 are now “up to date” (thanks, @iPadMatt!) — After Apple TV 6.0 was released on Friday with iTunes Radio and other enhancements, there were many reports of botched updates that required the user to restore their Apple TV.

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Blake Lawit / Official LinkedIn Blog:

Setting the Record Straight on False Accusations — As you may have read recently, a class action lawsuit was filed against LinkedIn last week. The lawsuit alleges that we “break into” the email accounts of our members who choose to upload their email address books to LinkedIn.

More: The Verge, T3 News, GigaOM and AllThingsD

Linda Sandler / Bloomberg:

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses — LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Ars Technica, I4U News, PC Pro, Softpedia News, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Ubergizmo and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @bartongellman

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Police in New York Really Want You to Download iOS 7 — The New York Police Department has more of a relationship with Apple's iPhone than merely performing crowd control at and around Apple stores on iPhone launch days like yesterday. — A new iPhone model also means a probable uptick in attempts to steal them.

More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iClarified, Gizmodo, Apple and Mobile Marketing Watch

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Update to Gawker's Kinja platform allows readers to summarize and discuss anything on the web — Disruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling — There are corners of the Internet that contain some of the most slimy and vitriolic stuff you could imagine …

DealBook:

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis considering bid to take company private — BlackBerry Co-Founder Is Said to Consider Bid for Company — Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2012, has reached out to private equity firms about a possible bid for the troubled company.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, WebProNews, Wall Street Journal, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, New York Times, MobileSyrup.com, MarketWatch, Ars Technica and Digits. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Dan Marantz / Bing Search Blog:

An overview of Bing's “Page Zero” results, which appear even before you finish typing — Page Zero: A Deep Dive — At Bing, our central mission is to help you spend less time searching and more time getting things done. To that end, we are in a constant state …

More: Search Engine Land, Engadget and TechNet Blogs

Sam Grobart / Businessweek:

Apple CEO Tim Cook's Complete Interview With Bloomberg Businessweek — For this week's cover story on Apple (AAPL) and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said far more than was ever going to make it into the story. Or even the outtakes from the story.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews and T3 News

Tweets: @wilshipley and @monkbent

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

A look at Mass Relevance, a startup TV networks rely on to surface pithy tweets — The secret company behind Twitter's TV takeover — Mass Relevance puts Twitter in front of television audiences, boosting the social network's public profile and altering its perception as a place for more than pointless babble.

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