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The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory.
Read MoreA Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
Credit to Author: Lauren Smiley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.
Read MoreAfter 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Read MoreMozilla first reveals, then conceals, paid support plan for Firefox
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:56:00 -0700
Mozilla earlier this month quietly outlined paid support for enterprise users of Firefox, but last week scrubbed the reference from its website, saying that it is “still exploring that option.”
The offering – labeled “Mozilla Enterprise Client Support” – was to start at $10 per “supported installation,” which likely referred to per-device, not per-user, pricing. It’s unclear whether that was an annual or monthly fee, and Mozilla declined to say which it was when asked.
In return for the fee, Mozilla said on the now-absent Firefox enterprise site – still visible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – customers would be able to privately report bugs via a new web portal and receive fixes on a timeline dependent on the impact and urgency of the problem. Customers would also be able to file requests for help with Firefox’s installation and deployment, management policies, functionality and customization.
All about U.S. tech antitrust investigations | TECH(feed)
Four large tech companies — Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are under investigation in the U.S. for allegedly anticompetitive behavior. These antitrust investigations on both the federal and state levels are aimed at uncovering the practices these companies engage in to eliminate competition. In this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet discusses the House investigation into big tech and how Congress plans to investigate potential wrongdoing by these companies.
After Six Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Read MoreNow let me guess your password
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
This pilot fish IT guy gets a call from an irate client one day complaining (incorrectly) that we had changed his administrative password on his Windows 2000 server without his knowledge.
“As I walked him through the logon process, I asked if the username in the login prompt was ‘Administrator,’ says fish. “His reply: “Oh, do I need to change that?”
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