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Electronic payments haven’t hurt cash a bit

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Regular readers know that I am skeptical about e-wallet systems – not that they won’t be widely used; of course they will – but about talk that they will someday replace the leather kind.

Here’s another data point to support that skepticism: The United States government is still printing money like it grows on trees.

From a MarketWatch story:

In fact, the amount of small bills in circulation — $ 1s to $ 20s — has remained pretty resilient over the past two decades, according to Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex. That’s even as Americans have become bigger users of credit and debit cards and have begun using online payments like (eBay’s) soon-to-be-spun-off PayPal, and more recently, Square (and) Apple Pay. Some have even used virtual currencies like bitcoin.

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3 Mobile Security Myths That Can Hurt You – EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education

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3 Mobile Security Myths That Can Hurt You
EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
Given the vast range of potential mobile security problems looming on the horizon, there's no such thing as absolute security. New threats and challenges appear with discomforting regularity, so eternal vigilance is the order of the day. This reality …

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US-Israel created Stuxnet to hurt Iran civilian N-program: Analyst – Press TV

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US-Israel created Stuxnet to hurt Iran civilian N-program: Analyst
Press TV
In addition, a report published by The Washington Post in the same month said the US and Israel had jointly created the computer virus Flame — a Stuxnet-like espionage malware — to spy on Iran. MP/HGH/SS. Related Stories: 'US, Israel co-wrote anti …
Snowden: US, Israel Created Stuxnet Virus against IranAl-Manar TV

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A world of hurt after McAfee mistakenly revokes key for signing Mac apps

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Travis Nep Smith

A McAfee administrator accidentally revoked the digital key used to certify desktop applications that run on Apple’s OS X platform, creating headaches for customers who want to install or upgrade Mac antivirus products.

A certificate revocation list [CRL] hosted by Apple Worldwide developer servers lists the reason for the cancellation as a “key compromise,” but McAfee officials said they never lost control of the sensitive certificate which is used to prove applications are legitimate releases. The revocation date shows as February 6, meaning that for seven days now, customers have had no means to validate McAfee applications they want to install on Macs.

“We were told that as a workaround, we should just allow untrusted certificates until they figure it out,” an IT administrator at a large organization, who asked that he not be identified, told Ars. “They’re telling us to trust untrusted certs, and that definitely puts us at risk.”

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