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Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 11:21:38 EDT Slashdot.org

The Mueller Report
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  The Mueller Report - Slashdot
  
  Almost two years after Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign, his report -- a redacted version of it -- is finally out [PDF]. [Update: Here's a PDF file of the report that supports search functionality.]...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 11:24:24 EDT Slashdot.org
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Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July
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  Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July - Slashdot
  
  The UK's age verification system for online pornography will become mandatory on 15 July, the government has confirmed. From a report: From that date, commercial providers of online pornography will be required to carry out "robust" age verification checks on users, in order to keep children from ac...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 10:06:24 EDT Slashdot.org

Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates To Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
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  Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates To Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers - Slashdot
  
  ASUS is believed to have pushed malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company's server and used it to push the malware to machines. From a report: Researchers at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab say that ASUS,...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 16:42:32 EDT Slashdot.org

Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco
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  Coders Used Ham Radio To Send Bitcoin From Canada To San Francisco - Slashdot
  
  "In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind transaction, two developers working in separate countries have successfully sent a bitcoin lightning payment over radio waves," writes CoinBase. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The completed payment effectively moved real bitcoin from Toronto, Can...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Feb-2019 12:30:50 EST Slashdot.org

'Prism, Prism on the Wall, Who is the Most Trustworthy of Them All?' Huawei Hits Back at US Over 5G Security Claims
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  'Prism, Prism on the Wall, Who is the Most Trustworthy of Them All?' Huawei Hits Back at US Over 5G Security Claims - Slashdot
  
  The tension between Huawei and the U.S. government took a new turn Tuesday after the Chinese networking giant's rotating chairman Guo Ping poked fun at the massive surveillance programs maintained by the United States. "Prism, prism on the wall, who's the most trustworthy of them all?" Ping said ons...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 10:39:32 EST Slashdot.org

'You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Popular Use Cases And Why They Do Not Work'
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  'You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Popular Use Cases And Why They Do Not Work' - Slashdot
  
  Ivan Ivanitskiy: People are resorting to blockchain for all kinds of reasons these days. Ever since I started doing smart contract security audits in mid-2017, I've seen it all. A special category of cases is 'blockchain use' that seems logical and beneficial, but actually contains a problem that th...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Feb-2019 02:09:31 EST Slashdot.org

Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends
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  Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends - Slashdot
  
  theodp writes: Facebook may be facing the threat of a multi-billion dollar FTC fine for privacy lapses that included allowing companies to obtain users' email addresses from their friends, but that didn't discourage Bill Gates from taking to Twitter to urge his 46.5 million followers to give up the ...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Feb-2019 09:42:31 EST Slashdot.org

A Third of All Chrome Extensions Request Access To User Data on Any Site
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  A Third of All Chrome Extensions Request Access To User Data on Any Site - Slashdot
  
  More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any website, a recent survey conducted by US cyber-security firm Duo Labs of over 120,000 Chrome extensions has revealed. From a report: The same survey also found that roughly 85 percent ...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 06:30:46 EST Slashdot.org

Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?'
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  Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' - Slashdot
  
  Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering "gene therapy" treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run. "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" analysts ask in an April 10 report entitled "T...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 05:00:47 EST Slashdot.org

Huawei Admits To Needing 5 Years, $2 Billion To Fix Security Issues
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  Huawei Admits To Needing 5 Years, $2 Billion To Fix Security Issues - Slashdot
  
  Bruce66423 writes: In a remarkable piece of honest self assessment, Huawei has produced a letter to a House of Commons committee member in response to security concerns raised by the UK Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) in its annual report, a body that includes Huawei, UK operators an...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 14:15:46 EST Slashdot.org

New Security Flaw Impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G Telephony Protocols
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  New Security Flaw Impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G Telephony Protocols - Slashdot
  
  A new vulnerability has been discovered in the upcoming 5G cellular mobile communications protocol. Researchers have described this new flaw as more severe than any of the previous vulnerabilities that affected the 3G and 4G standards. From a report: Further, besides 5G, this new vulnerability also ...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Jan-2019 19:51:34 EST Slashdot.org

Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them
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  Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them - Slashdot
  
  A new report from TechCrunch details how "desperate" Facebook is for data on its competitors. The social media company "has been secretly paying people to install a 'Facebook Research' VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity," a TechCrunch investigation confirms. "Fa...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2019 13:51:32 EST Slashdot.org

Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report
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  Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report - Slashdot
  
  Documents outlining how Facebook profited off children are expected to be made public soon, according to Reveal News of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), who requested the documents. From a report: In a report about the trove of previously-sealed documents, Reveal News explains that Fa...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 15:06:35 EST Slashdot.org

Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location
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  Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location - Slashdot
  
  Even if you explicitly tell Facebook to not track your location, it says it will still use your IP address to track your location. Kashmir Hill, reporting for Gizmodo: Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook's access to her location in every way that she can. She has turned off location history ...
Slashdot.org (slashdot@innerwebs.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Sep-2018 11:21:34 EDT Slashdot.org

More Than 1 In 4 American Users Have Deleted Facebook, Pew Survey Finds
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  More Than 1 In 4 American Users Have Deleted Facebook, Pew Survey Finds - Slashdot
  
  Gayle BAS writes: Nearly three-quarters of American Facebook users have changed how they use the social media app in the past year, following a barrage of scandals involving the abuse of personal data, foreign interference in U.S. elections and the spread of hateful or harassing content on the platf...

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