The FCC ruled today in favor of you, the customer, telling Verizon that they were in the wrong when they blocked tethering apps from being able to be downloaded to your phone. The blocking of tethering apps, as many of you suggested a year ago, does not comply with the FCC’s “C Block rules” … Continue Reading
LAS VEGAS — A former NSA official has accused the NSA’s director of deception during a speech he gave at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when he asserted that the agency does not collect files on Americans. William Binney, a former technical director at the NSA, said during a panel discussion that NSA Director … Continue Reading
Audio from all of the scheduled talks at HOPE Number Nine is now up on the HOPE website. It’s available for free download in MP3 format at both 16kbps and 64kbps. Feel free to spread them around, convert them to other formats, and add this audio to your own archives. We want to thank everyone … Continue Reading
Skype used a huge behind-the-scenes change in VoIP service architecture to add messaging monitoring systems, insiders claim, following Microsoft’s acquisition of the company in 2011. According to the industry officials speaking to the Washington Post, the installation of server-based supernodes – hubs through which Skype traffic is routed to improve uptime and reliability as the service gains traction … Continue Reading
Does your home have a security system but you don’t subscribe to the monitoring service to make it work? Rip that baby off of the wall and do something with it, or just build your own system around it. If you have a DSC PC1500RK control panel [CaitSith2] shows us how easy it is to control the … Continue Reading
How can you make sure that you’ll never share your password with anyone, even under threat of bodily harm, or other illegal and illegal type of coercion? The answer is simple: don’t actually know your… SOURCE Help Net Security – News
Researchers reverse-engineered iris codes to create synthetic eye images that tricked an iris-recognition system into thinking they were authentic. Can you tell if this is the real image or the synthetic one? All images courtesy of Javier Galbally LAS VEGAS — Remember that scene in Minority Report when the spider robots stalk Tom Cruise to … Continue Reading
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #2019, a photo by Ape Lad on Flickr. SOURCE HOBOTOPIA
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