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November 23, 2013, 5:40 PM

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nrc.nl:
NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software  —  NEWS The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information.  Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this.
New York Times:
N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power  —  WASHINGTON — Officials at the National Security Agency, intent on maintaining its dominance in intelligence collection, pledged last year to push to expand its surveillance powers, according to a top secret strategy document.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber  —  Slow Internet speeds and a lack of competitive pressure on Internet providers is a fact of life in communities throughout America.  We've seen that competition can make a difference, notably with the entry …
Balaji Srinivasan / Wired:
Like minds meet online and then travel to meet offline. Will this reorganize the world?  —  Software Is Reorganizing the World  —  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.  This is the kind of grim reality …
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews / Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter enables forward secrecy to avoid snooping, joining Google, Mozilla, and Facebook  —  Forward Secrecy at Twitter  —  As part of our continuing effort to keep our users' information as secure as possible, we're happy to announce that we recently enabled forward secrecy for traffic on twitter.com …
Lee Mathews / Geek.com:
Excess of stolen identities leads to massive price cuts, US ID costs just $25  —  Cybercriminals have been busy over the past couple of years, and it's starting to show.  Digital identity inventory levels have never been higher, and prices have never been lower.  It's a great time to be a black market buyer.
Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch:
AeroFS emerges from stealth, syncs files without storing on external servers that governments can access  —  As Customers Seek Privacy, AeroFS Emerges With Stealthy File Sharing Software  —  Air Computing Inc., which is doing business as AeroFS, emerged publicly Friday with software …
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Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Microsoft sells 1 million Xbox One units in its first 24 hours  —  Microsoft has announced a successful Xbox One launch with over 1 million units sold worldwide in the first 24 hours.  That roughly matches Sony's PlayStation 4, which also topped 1 million in its first day.

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