Irony: Surveillance Industry Objects to Spying Secrets & Mass Monitoring Leaks

While not everyone considers mass surveillance to be Satan, signing online does not automatically forfeit your right to value your privacy. In fact, it’s sickening when alleged ‘white hats’ wear black hats to exploit users in the name of surveillance for security. If a hacker were to engage in net or cell phone surveillance, or [...]


Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms (Alastair Sharp/Reuters)

Alastair Sharp / Reuters:Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms  —  (Reuters) – Google should not be able to buy thousands of patents belonging to bankrupt Nortel Networks under current sale terms, Microsoft said on Monday, the deadline for bids in an closely watched auction.


Nvidia Beats EPS, Revenue Estimates [Updated] (Brian Caulfield/Shiny Objects)

Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:Nvidia Beats EPS, Revenue Estimates [Updated]  —  Nvidia’s tablet and smartphone processor business is growing fast.  Image by Getty Images via @daylife  —  Surging sales of Tegra mobile processors helped Nvidia beat earnings expectations for the quarter ending in April Thursday.


Secure Internet Programming: Security Issues for Mobile and Distributed Objects

Product DescriptionLarge-scale open distributed systems provide an infrastructure for assembling global applications on the basis of software and hardware components originating from multiple sources. Open systems rely on publicly available standards to permit heterogeneous components to interact. The Internet is the archetype of a large-scale open distributed system; standards such as HTTP, HTML, and XML, [...]