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US government seizing medical records
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-21 00:02
It seems that the French backed Junta which took control of the English colony of Virginia is desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens using its award winning "no taxation without representation" laws.
A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, claiming that they seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans under the pretext of investigating one of its employees.
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Chinese hackers who breached Google reportedly targeted classified data
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-05-20 23:55
The Chinese hackers who breached Google's corporate servers 41 months ago gained access to a database containing classified information about suspected spies, agents, and terrorists under surveillance by the US government, according to a published report.
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Is Microsoft reading your Skype instant messages?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-05-15 03:49
L33tdawg: It's always better to assume the answer to that question is a YES and act accordingly.
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
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Drone creep filmed woman's house and refused to stop
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-05-15 03:17
In Capitol Hill Seattle's complaints blog, a woman has reported a stranger flying a drone near her house and refusing to leave.
"I initially mistook its noisy buzzing for a weed-whacker," the resident said. "After several minutes, I looked out my third story window to see a drone hovering a few feet away".
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Saudi telco asks Moxie Marlinspike to help to build a mobile spying system
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-14 00:20
Apparently Saudi based telecom operator, Mobily, has been busy buiilding a system for intercepting mobile communications including Twitter, Viber and Whatsapp. They approached world famous Moxie Marlinspike for help and in a blog post, Moxie relates the correspondence he had with Yasser D. Airuhaily, executibve manager of network information security at Mobily:
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