Lashdots writes: Electronic surveillance has raised concerns among Americans and pushed an estimated 30% of them to protect their privacy in some form. Artist Curtis Wallen has taken that effort to dramatic lengths, documenting how to create a "clandestine communications network" using pre-paid phones, Tor, Twitter, and encryption. The approach, which attempts to conceal any encryption that could raise suspicions, is "very passive" says Wallen, so "there's hardly any trace that an interaction even happened." This is not easy, of course. In fact, as he discovered while researching faulty CIA security practices, it's really, comically hard. "If the CIA can't even keep from getting betrayed by their cell phones, what chance do we have?" he says. Still, he believes his system could theoretically keep users' activities hidden, and while it's hard, it's not impossible.

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Lashdots writes: Electronic surveillance has raised concerns among Americans and pushed an estimated 30% of them to protect their privacy in some form. Artist Curtis Wallen has taken that effort to dramatic lengths, documenting how to create a "clandestine communications network" using pre-paid phones, Tor, Twitter, and encryption. The approach, which attempts to conceal any encryption that could raise suspicions, is "very passive" says Wallen, so "there's hardly any trace that an interaction even happened." This is not easy, of course. In fact, as he discovered while researching faulty CIA security practices, it's really, comically hard. "If the CIA can't even keep from getting betrayed by their cell phones, what chance do we have?" he says. Still, he believes his system could theoretically keep users' activities hidden, and while it's hard, it's not impossible.

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After 36 years of mistrust and hostility, Iran and the West appear to be developing something of a new relationship.

The accused, including at least three Bangladeshis, deny ever carrying out attack in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Säkerhetsstyrkor i Mali uppger att de avslöjat planer på en ”större attack” i huvudstaden Bamako. Avslöjandet gjordes när en lokal säkerhetsvakt dödades i en explosion i en fastighet i Bamakos utkanter.

Säkerhetsstyrkor i Mali uppger att de avslöjat planer på en ”större attack” i huvudstaden Bamako. Avslöjandet gjordes när en lokal säkerhetsvakt dödades i en explosion i en fastighet i Bamakos utkanter.

Att sponsra kultur innebär risker för företagens varumärken om det slår snett och oväntat, som med fallet BMW och Nationalmuseum, menar varumärkesexperter. Ett syfte med sponsringen kan vara tillgång till exklusiva salonger för en liten grupp.

An anonymous reader writes: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act contains anti-circumvention prohibitions that affect everything from music files to cell phones. The EFF noticed that it could apply to cars as well, so they asked for an exemption to be put in place so car owners would be free to inspect and modify the code running on their vehicles. It turns out U.S. automakers don't agree — they filed opposition comments through trade associations. "They say you shouldn't be allowed to repair your own car because you might not do it right. They say you shouldn't be allowed to modify the code in your car because you might defraud a used car purchaser by changing the mileage. They say no one should be allowed to even look at the code without the manufacturer's permission because letting the public learn how cars work could help malicious hackers, "third-party software developers" (the horror!), and competitors. John Deere even argued that letting people modify car computer systems will result in them pirating music through the on-board entertainment system, which would be one of the more convoluted ways to copy media (and the exemption process doesn't authorize copyright infringement, anyway)."

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At least 10 people killed in explosion in northeastern state of Gombe, medical officials say.

At least 10 people killed in explosion in northeastern state of Gombe, medical officials say.

Ledaren för det burmesiska oppositionspartiet NLD, Aung San Suu Kyi, överväger att bojkotta valet i Burma om inte lagen, som i nuläget hindrar henne från att bli president, ändras.

I samband med att polisen grep en man på Hisingen i Göteborg på torsdagskvällen angreps poliserna av två andra män. En av dem försökte hugga en polis med en kniv.

blottsie writes: In his first interview since retiring as general council to the NSA, Rajesh De offers detailed insights into the spy agency's efforts to find balance between security and privacy, why the NSA often has trouble defending itself in public, the culture of "No Such Agency," and what it was like on the inside when the Snowden bombshell went off. He describes the mood after the leaks: "My sense of it was that there were two overriding emotions among the workforce. The first was a deep, deep [feeling] of betrayal. Someone who was sitting next to them—being part of the team helping keep people safe, which is really what people at the agency think they are doing—could turn around and do something so self-aggrandizing and reckless. There was also a deep sense of hurt that a lot of what was in the media was not entirely accurate. Questioning the motives and legality of what NSA employees were being asked to do to keep Americans safe—all within the legal policy construct that we've been given—that was difficult for the NSA workforce."

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