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Fred Vogelstein / New York Times:

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ — The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Former Apple Engineer Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Original iPhone Introduction

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Guardian:

‘Tor Stinks’ presentation - read the full document — Top-secret presentation says ‘We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time’ but ‘with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users’

More: The Register, GigaOM, The Verge and emptywheel

Tweets: @eff, @eff, @vivaanonymous, @edfelten, @pondswimmer, @spyblog, @rj_gallagher and @csoghoian

Guardian:

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users — • Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor — • Tool funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists — • Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users' computers

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Bruce Schneier / Guardian:

Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity — Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack target computers — The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency.

More: Techdirt, CNET, emptywheel, Nextgov, Vacuum and FP Passport

Tweets: @erikcorry and @binarybits

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

DNI responds to latest NSA revelations, emphasizing Tor is used by “our foreign adversaries”

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Bruce Schneier / Guardian:

Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees — On the eve of the second anniversary of the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reflected on the moment in a company-wide email. A source has provided a copy:

Reuters:

Exclusive: Cisco, Google, SAP discussing BlackBerry bids - sources — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd, on the block as its smartphone business struggles, is in talks with Cisco Systems, Google Inc and SAP about selling them all or parts of itself, several sources close to the matter said.

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Joanna Stern / ABC News:

iPhone 5C's price cut to $50 at Best Buy through Monday just two weeks after launch — Best Buy Drops the Price of iPhone 5c to $50 … Just two weeks after hitting the market, Best Buy will begin offering a discount on Apple's iPhone 5c. From today, Oct. 3, to Monday, Oct. 7, the iPhone 5c will be available for $50.

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Apple's iPhone 5s tops sales charts at big 4 US carriers, iPhone 5c close behind

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Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Two Weeks After Launch, Walmart Drops Price of the iPhone 5c to $45 After Best Buy's Offer

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, everythingiCafe and TechnoBuffalo

Valleywag:

Analyst who recommended eToys and Webvan is now Goldman Sachs' head banker for Twitter IPO — Twitter's New Top Banker Was a Tech Bubble Clown — Anthony Noto just came out of Wall Street retirement for one big score: he's going to lead the Goldman Sachs blitz behind Twitter's IPO …

More: Gawker, DealBook, Forbes and Bloomberg

Tweets: @jyarow, @gawker, @dangillmor, @nitashatiku and @om

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Here are the secret edits Twitter made to its IPO filing, hoping investors wouldn't notice

More: Digits and Forbes. Tweets: @zseward, @zseward, @jdh, @danprimack, @yoreekoh, @zseward and @jessicalessin

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Is Made for Mobile, but It Still Has a Mobile Ad Gap

More: PandoDaily, Daily Dot and Xconomy. Tweets: @niemanlab

Ritchie King / Quartz:

Twitter's average ad revenue per user was $0.55 in Q2 2013, compared to $1.41 for Facebook

More: Wonkblog, Marketing Land, GigaOM, New York Times, Forbes, Softpedia News, Digits, Tech in Asia, Tom Simonite, Washington Post, DealBook, TechCrunch and Los Angeles Times. See also Mediagazer

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Running Out Of Cash; Looking For $3 Billion From Investors — It would appear that Intellectual Ventures' grand plans to tax innovators has hit a bit of a roadblock: the company appears to be running out of cash. Reuters has the news that the company …

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Switch and Reuters. Tweets: @fedcourtjunkie

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Shumway, Mozilla's HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement, Lands In Firefox Nightly — Shumway, Mozilla's technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project …

More: TechSpot, ZDNet, Geek.com and Web Browser

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Apple officially appeals in ebook pricing case — Apple has filed its appeal against federal judge Denise Cote's verdict in the ebook pricing case. Apple seeks to overturn Judge Cote's July verdict that it conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices, as well as the September 6 injunction …

More: CNET, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, PC Magazine, TUAW, PadGadget, Computerworld, Electronista, The Atlantic Wire, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, SlashGear, Macworld, Macgasm and AllThingsD

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

iCloud Alternative Loom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round — A startup called Loom, which begin its life as the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing startup Popset, is working to build a better iCloud for both consumers and developers. Currently, the company offers a cloud storage and syncing service …

More: AllThingsD, Loom, VentureBeat and TechHive

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