Twitter tightens security against NSA snooping

Computerworld Security: November 25, 2013
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Twitter tightens security against NSA snooping

Twitter has implemented new security measures that should make it much more
difficult for anyone to eavesdrop on communications between its servers and
users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead.
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1. Antone Gonsalves: Wireless carriers reach new low in customer protection
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2. Darlene Storm: Haunting of horror Scream producer by cyberstalker from hell: A cautionary tale
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3. Privacy groups urge UN to adopt digital surveillance resolution
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4. Silk Road defendant deemed flight risk, denied bail
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Antone Gonsalves: Wireless carriers reach new low in customer protection


Major carriers have trumped customer safety with profits in rejecting Samsung
antitheft software.
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Darlene Storm: Haunting of horror Scream producer by cyberstalker from hell: A cautionary tale


The "carefully-executed cyberstalking" case involves Marianne
Maddalena, who has worked with master of horror Wes Craven on movies like
the Scream franchise; but she has also produced horror flicks
like The Hills Have Eyes, and The Last House on the Left. But just
because she worked on horror films does not imply she wanted her life to turn
into a horror flick.
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Privacy groups urge UN to adopt digital surveillance resolution

Five human rights groups urged the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to adopt
a new resolution against indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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Silk Road defendant deemed flight risk, denied bail

A federal court in New York denied bail on Thursday to Ross William Ulbricht,
the 29-year-old accused of running the Silk Road underground marketplace,
deeming him a flight risk and a danger to the community.
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