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RSA received $10 million to use backdoored NSA algorithm by default in crypto software BSafe — Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer — (Reuters) - As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products …
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Thanks:@joeross| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default — Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Microsoft gifts 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage to Windows Phone users for a year — Microsoft is distributing some holiday cheer to Windows Phone owners today with an email inviting them to activate a bonus 20GB of SkyDrive storage. The bump in cloud storage will be active for a year …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Avegant Glyph: the virtual reality headset made for the mainstream — Part Google Glass, part Oculus Rift — part Beats by Dre — Picture it: you're sitting on the plane or in the doctor's waiting room, listening to music on a large, good-looking set of headphones.
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Protesters vandalize Google bus, block Apple shuttle — Gentrification backlash targeting tech firms escalates in San Francisco and Oakland. — SAN FRANCISCO — As tech-driven housing costs and evictions soar, anti-gentrification protesters in San Francisco and Oakland … | Hunter Walk: |
Deals We Lost: Homebrew's Two 2013 Misses — When do you officially get christened a “VC?” Is it when you successfully raise your first dollar or finish the fundraising? Is it when you write your first check or see your first exit? With Homebrew, Satya and I both consider ourselves a startup in its “product-market fit” phase.
Tweets: @ethankurz, @ryanlawler, @satyap and @hunterwalk
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Snapchat for iOS gets a replay option, front camera flash, filters and up to 7 best friends — Ephemeral messaging service Snapchat just got an interesting update that adds the ability to replay a message once per day, “flash” your front camera by whiting-out the screen …
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| Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Details of the ‘Mega Conspiracy’ Behind Megaupload … Some lively new details arrived today in the long saga of Megaupload, the file-sharing site whose founder, Kim Dotcom, is currently suing the New Zealand police while the U.S. government attempts to extradite him to face charges of criminal conspiracy.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Bought GoPago's Mobile Payment Tech And Product/Engineering Team, DoubleBeam Bought The POS Business — Last week, we wrote about how Amazon had quietly acquired mobile payments startup GoPago. Today, some more details about the deal: A source close to the situation confirms … | Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Intel Robot Puts Touch Screens through Their Paces — A robot able to play touch screen games like Cut the Rope can judge whether humans will find a new device responsive. — In a compact lab at Intel's Silicon Valley headquarters, Oculus the robot is playing the hit game Cut the Rope on a smartphone.
Tweets: @techreview and @antonioregalado
| Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press: |
Justice Dept. drops objection to publishing FISA opinion on phone metadata collection law — GOVT DROPS OBJECTION TO PUBLISHING SECRET OPINION — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has dropped its objection to the publication of a secret court opinion on the law that authorizes …
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