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New EU And US Data Sharing Policy May Not Be Enough
With thousands of accounts and messages used every hour, with messages going between countries within seconds. With systems like PRISM from the US tracking, profiling and gathering information from accounts worldwide the EU decided that they needed to re-clarify the agreement they had regarding data sharing and for a year now…
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HTTP/2 Opens New Connections With the Word ‘PRISM’
Since whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program, the word Prism has taken on a sinister meaning. The NSA’s PRISM program collected the internet communications of its citizens via nine major internet companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo. Now, John Graham-Cumming,…
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Amazon Breaks Silence On Disclosure Requests and PRISM
Governments have been requesting people’s details for a while now, from their internet providers to web-based forums, companies have been asked to reveal a myriad of information about their users with a variety of reasons. Amazon has recently revealed how many data demands they received from the government. Revealing it…
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US Tech Companies Set to Lose $35 Billion Due to NSA Surveillance
A number of US companies are set to lose an estimated $35 billion collectively due to revelations regarding NSA surveillance, as uncovered by Edward Snowden two years ago, according to a report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Companies that colluded with the NSA, revealing confidential user data…
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SteelSeries Siberia Elite Prism Review
Introduction SteelSeries are one of the hottest gaming brands around, so I’m very happy today to have their flagship gaming headset, the Siberia Elite Prism, in the eTeknix office. The Siberia series has long proven to be a big hit with the gaming community, especially their excellent V2 and more…
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Snowden Documentary Citizenfour Now Streaming Online for Free
Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has been made available for online streaming, free of charge. The film is being hosted by Thought Maybe, a website that aims to tackle “issues surrounding modern society, industrial civilisation, globalised dominant culture.” The documentary was directed by Laura Poitras,…
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PayPal Pulls MEGA Support
PayPal has ceased supporting customer payments for MEGA as of Friday. A post on MEGA’s blog suggests that PayPal has refused to handle the cloud storage service’s transactions due to its presence in a NetNames report accusing it of being an illegitimate business, and subsequent pressure by Visa and Mastercard.…
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Silk Road Reloaded Moves to Obscure I2P Network Over Tor
Silk Road Reloaded, the latest version of the infamous darknet black market, has eschewed the Tor network for the little-known but more secure I2P network Silk Road, its clones, and its successors alike have opted for Tor as their network of choice, but concerns over the level of anonymity the…
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Edward Snowden Speaks Out on Cyber Warfare
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that cyber warfare could hurt the USA more than any other country in the world. In an interview with PBS, recorded back in June as part of the NOVA Next program but recently released as an unedited transcript and highlights video, Snowden claims that…
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New Range of SteelSeries Siberia Gaming Headsets Revealed
The SteelSeries Siberia has long been one of the most popular headset ranges on the market, offering a several high performance headsets for both the consumer and competitive gaming markets. Now SteelSeries are back with the latest range of products in the Siberia family. “For us, Siberia is the definition of what…
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NSA Revealed to have Collected Docs from Innocent Individuals, not Valid Targets
It appears that a huge report from The Washington Post has uncovered a large number of communications and documents collected by the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The report is stated to have revealed that 9 out of 10 users from the collected documents are not the people targeted by…
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