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Economic Espionage: A Case for Why the US Needs to Push Back
Wall Street Journal (blog) China in particular has boldly and repeatedly flouted the notion that commercial enterprises should sink or swim on their own, independently of state-supported economic espionage, as the Office of the U.S. National Counterintelligence Executive said … |
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AVG, ZTE partner in Asia Pacific push
ZDNet Chips under the skin: Biohacking, the connected body is 'here to stay'. Security. Beyond Stuxnet and Flame: Equation 'most advanced' cybercriminal gang recorded. Security. Bug bounties: 'Buy what you want'. Security. Terrorist encryption tools nothing … |
The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to move forward on efforts to extend the section of the Patriot Act that the National Security Agency has used to collect millions of domestic telephone records.
Congress is facing an effective deadline of this weekend to extend the phone records collection section of the antiterrorism law, with Section 215 of the Patriot Act expiring June 1 and lawmakers scheduled to take a weeklong break after finishing business this week.
On Thursday, Senators were wrestling with three alternatives: allow the Patriot Act’s records collection program to expire, extend the program with no new limits, or pass a House of Representatives bill that aims to end bulk records collection but allows the NSA to search phone and business records in a more targeted manner.
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Firefox celebrates 10th birthday with a 'Forget button' and a push for privacy
ZDNet Mozilla also unveiled a developer edition of Firefox, customized for Web developers, and a developer preview of Firefox OS 2.0 for the Flame reference device. As I've pointed out before, Firefox does have one significant attraction: it's the only … |