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This section will help with tips and tricks to ensure your privacy online.

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

The US Government Just Paid a Crypto Startup to Explore Digital Dollars

"The U.S. federal government just awarded a grant to the blockchain startup Key Retroactivity Network Consensus (KRNC)," reports Futurism.com, " to study the feasibility of integrating cryptocurrency...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

Illegal Netflix, Amazon Streamers Cut Off After European Arrests

European police busted an illegal streaming ring that provided service to 2 million people and was so sophisticated that it had its own customer-service team. From a report: The criminal network op...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

Amazon Pauses Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech For a Year

Amazon on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software , reversing its long-time support of selling the technology to law enforcement. Civ...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

Why online voting is a huge risk.

On Sunday, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan revealed numerous security flaws in the product that West Virginia and Delaware are using, saying i...

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@Secure · 4 years ago

Google has withdrawn 500 Chrome Extension for stealing Sensitive Data from 1.7 million users

Google has withdrawn 500 malware-driven Chrome extensions from its Web Store as malicious advertisements and user surfing injections have been detected on servers under attacker power. These extensio...

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@Ucheallwell · 4 years ago

NSA: Russian govt hackers exploiting critical Exim flaw since 2019

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at lea...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

Anonymous Hackers Reemerge Amid US Unrest

The BBC reported that as the United States deals with widespread civil unrest across dozens of cities, "hacktivist" group Anonymous has returned from the shadows . The hacker collective was once a re...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

No more spying for German Intelligence on the World's Internet Traffic, Top Court Rules

In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure. So the fact that Germany is home to one of the world...

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@t0ny420 · 4 years ago

The New York Times removing all 3rd-Party Advertising Data

A new report suggests The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021 , and is building out a proprietary first-party data platform. From the report: Third-party data,...

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