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Smart meters, dumb security? Hacking the Internet of Things
This post was originally published on October 23, 2014. According to the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, almost 100,000 smart meters were installed in homes through the second quarter of...
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Soggy cardboard? Dropbox says it wasn’t hacked
This post was originally published on October 17, 2014. Snowden called it, apparently. In a recent interview, the NSA whistleblower warned cloud storage users to avoid Dropbox because the service does...
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New documentary shining light on Snowden: Citizenfour
This post was originally published on October 15, 2014. In May of 2013, few people in the United States — let alone worldwide — knew anything about Edward Snowden. The mild-mannered IT security co...
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Our thoughts on the anniversary of Snowden’s first revelations
It’s been one year since Edward Snowden’s first revelations about the mass surveillance conducted by the United States’ National Security Agency. Since then, revelation after revelation has emer...
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Our thoughts on the EU’s "right to be forgotten" ruling
This post was originally published on May 16, 2014. On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice decided that Europeans have what they call the "right to be forgotten," meaning that companies like Googl...
