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Credit to Author: Ashley Feinberg| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

In the latest of several paperwork mishaps, the President’s senior advisor and son-in-law registered to vote in New York with the wrong gender.

Credit to Author: Alice Su| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Basel Khartabil hoped the internet would lead to a flowering of freedom and openness in Syria. Then he was arrested and imprisoned by the Assad regime.

The private messenger is testing an Intel-chip feature that could let apps check your phone’s contact list—and then provably forget it.

Credit to Author: Ashley Feinberg| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:57:10 +0000

Sitting on the Heroes Health Fund advisory board, Jon Adler helped promote Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s controversial “detoxification” program.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:08:10 +0000

Cloudflare’s unlimited DDoS protection should help the internet, but its broader ambitions of killing off DDoS for good remain out of reach.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The Equifax breach that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people was bad. The company’s response has almost been worse, if that’s even possible.

Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

An SEC hack, a Russian dark web takedown, and more security news this week.