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September 22, 2013, 7:50 PM

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Chaos Computer Club Bypasses Apple's Touch ID System (with copy of original fingerprint) — The Chaos Computer Club claims to be able to bypass Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor with a photo of the original user's fingerprint. The bypass is demonstrated in this short video:

More: Chaos Computer Club, The Verge, iMore, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Register, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Atlantic Wire, PC Magazine, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Forbes, Forbes and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @gruber, @parislemon, @chriseng, @beaker, @fabienpenso, @csoghoian, @stroughtonsmith, @nerdtalker, @ryan and @gruber

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.

More: Guardian. Tweets: @doougle, @rushholt, @ggreenwald and @mikko

Stephen Braun / Associated Press:

Close ties between White House, NSA spying review — WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a panel of advisers he described as independent experts to scrutinize the NSA's surveillance programs …

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @joanneleon, @rj_gallagher and @csoghoian

Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’

More: Guardian and Techdirt. Tweets: @kgosztola, @anonyops and @jayrosen_nyu

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV 6.0 update pulled after reports of bricking and networking issues — 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. In some particular instances …

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, macmight.com, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, App Advice, TUAW and iClarified. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski. Thanks:@luminaryws

Dan Primack / Fortune:

AngelList raises $24M at $150M valuation from Atlas Venture, Google Ventures, and over 100 others — Exclusive: AngelList raises $24 million at a heavenly valuation — AngelList builds its war chest, as the SEC prepares to lift its ban on general solicitation.

More: Haywire and PandoDaily. Tweets: @jaredkim

TechCrunch:

Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation — On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that you're raising. This is not crowdfunding — you still have to raise from accredited ("rich") investors.

More: CNET and Fortune

Hunter Walk:

AngelList Syndicates: Three Examples of Their Powerful Future

Tweets: @rohit_x_ and @semil

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 …

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: The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, iClarified, Business Insider, Gizmodo and Mobile Marketing Watch

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: GigaOM, T3 News, The Verge and AllThingsD

Linda Sandler / Bloomberg:

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses

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

David Lee:

Photos are the latest “cheap, abundant” data, so we do need more “photo-sharing” apps — Photo-sharing Fatigue — Photo-sharing gets a bad rap in startup worlds. The conventional wisdom is that there are too many and that bright entrepreneurs should work …

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 …

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