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Sep 10, 2013 – 01:47 PM GMT By: Money_Morning Robert Hsu writes: This has been the bond market’s worst showing in 19 years, thanks to the recent spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. But bond investors aren’t the only ones getting hit. A higher “risk-free” rate affects you, too. And me. And anyone else trying to […]
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Sep 11, 2013 – 01:26 PM GMT By: Jeff_Berwick We have been saying for the last four years that as Europe, the US and other Western and global nation-states continue their debt-fueled collapse the governments of these countries will continue to consider their citizens’ wealth to be their own and seize more of their assets. We […]
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The security scandal, financial crisis, and other world events are changing the way users engage the internet and changing the way we do business. Global Intel Hub proposes a new model based on synthesis which incorporate your internet activity (workflow), security, privacy, and filter out spam and other unwanted distractions and risks. Structured Consulting will […]
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Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 09/09/2013 13:35 -0400 Should MSFT split up After reading an interesting article in the New Scientist, How NSA weakens encryption to access internet traffic, I was brought to mind a piece that I wrote to address the single most powerful tool in the NSA’s arsenal – the blatant ignorance of the common tech enduser. I […]
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Edward Snowden has revealed new information concerning the cryptographic capabilities of the NSA and GCHQ (TheGuardian, ProRepublica, leaking documents…). The CryptoGirl was bound to look into that topic 😉 Let’s go straight to the point and answer simple questions. Is cryptography unsecure? No, I don’t think so. Basically, cryptography is maths (prime numbers, finite fields, polynomials…), and […]
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Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. The researchers, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson, found that the number generator appeared to have been built with […]
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(DaveHodges) – There are very dark storm clouds gathering around the country and North America as a whole. Things are about to get dark, very dark in just a few short weeks. In just over two months, on November 13-14, 2013, the lights are about to go out. Will the lights come back on? It […]
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Two months ago, when we reported that the NSA has successfully inserted illegal access protocols into the Android OS, thus granting it back door access into nearly three quarters of all cell phones, the news was met with skepticism and resistance: how could an open-sourced architecture be so frail and open to penetration was the most common […]
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UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, areblocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies. In particular, O2/GiffGaff block IPREDator, my favorite VPN service. The carriers claim that because these services could be use to bypass their Internet censorship tools — switched on by default, a regime […]
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(see story here) “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing’s SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net — or anything else online — you can try the following workarounds: Distributed BoingBoing mirrors everything on BoingBoing.net at random […]
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