Credit to Author: Zak Jason| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 02:43:45 +0000
Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:28:18 +0000
At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:02:45 +0000
At WIRED25, the NSA’s Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones.
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Credit to Author: Boone Ashworth| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:06:33 +0000
The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:34:34 +0000
The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US.”
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Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000
It’s much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it’s possible.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:31:14 +0000
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:00:00 +0000
The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception.
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Credit to Author: Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000
The original Google Pixel didn’t make the cut for this month’s Android security patches.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out.
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