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GPS data is pretty accurate outdoors, but the second you step inside a store the trace goes completely haywire and bounces round hundreds of meters in all directions. So any warnin…

Some nuance, but still a biased hit piece. Particularly ugly is when the author dismisses Glenn Greenwald's journalist status, which is beyond doubt, and designates him a mere digi…

Does anyone know where to find a copy of the torrent DB? I think kat had copies on their app page, but the new mirrors omit this.

I dream about a tool like this every time I need to look something up, which only happens about a hundred times every day. I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE. But reading the kite.com/privacy …

They're really hitting the "nobody should be above the law" talking point hard. How fortunate for us — it sounds good but doesn't survive even casual scrutiny. Crypto might interfe…

It stinks that the case ended like this — without setting a sensible precedent — but I think there is still some upside: FBI director Comey's "Going Dark" narrative no longer holds…

The supposed middle ground is that you force the naval engineers to, against their will, build the submarine with just a few extra holes. Security is only as good as the weakest li…

"I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It's yours." Ellis Wyatt If you feel you're being compelled to act immorally, remember non-compliance — whatever the immediate consequenc…

There's a similar game on iOS — Infinite Primes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/infinite-primes/id1063881848...

> Should the government be able to access citizen's digital data with a court order? And if so, how can that be enabled without compromising the general security of the device? No.…

So why is Microsoft fighting us.gov regarding access to data stored in another country? Isn't that, to the layman, just another variety of ribbon-wrapped box. Gates should know tha…

See this FT article [1] (a admittedly biased competitor) from late last month. Their cash shrank from £840M to £740M in the last year, and they're planning to cut "costs" by 20%. T…

You can almost hear the Guardian's business leader writers rubbing their hands at the prospect. Which is as shameful and shortsighted as it is atypical for the Guardian. I would gu…