Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hack

Australia’s state police have been upping the ante on criminals who use technology to protect their activities, but is it the right way to go?
The governments of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) have moved to boost covert search and telecommunication interception powers that police can use in the fight against crime.
Privacy advocates have [...]
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Firefox top for bugs in 2008, but quickest at fixes

Mozilla reported more vulnerabilities in its Firefox web browser last year than Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera combined, but it dealt with those flaws quicker than Microsoft, according to a new report by vulnerability-testing company Secunia.
Firefox had 115 reported flaws in 2008, nearly four times as many as every other popular browser, and nearly twice [...]
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Time to Write Off Twitter?

How Twitter compares to Facebook and Linked In and whether it’s a simple, passing fad are questions that persist in the blogosphere. Just last night I found myself issuing a rapid response to that very question posted by an industry peer. Remarkably, I’ve already formed a firm perspective on this since former Kodak Digital boss [...]
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Earn Using Social Networking Through Forming Networks

There are many businesses using social networking to boost their earnings. You can actually take advantage of this by forming partnerships with these individuals. You want to earn through social networking as well, so it is important to take chances and be creative. You’re going to do that by doing the following:
- Send a message [...]
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Tips on Driving Web 2.0 Traffic

Ultimately titled as ‘Web 2.0′ promotion, social bookmarking and social networks form an effective type of promotion that has rapidly gained popularity and effectiveness. Previously, it was mentioned that these represented a valuable source of backlinks, and that much is certainly true.
However, apart from the backlinks that come as part and parcel of web 2.0 [...]
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Gov’t may track all UK Facebook traffic

The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those [...]
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FAQ: What iPhone 3.0 means to you

If it’s March, it must be time for Apple Inc. to start beating the iPhone drum.
That’s the quick analysis of yesterday’s preview of the next generation of Apple’s iPhone software, which will add a slew of features — some that users have been yelping about since Day One — to the popular smartphone [...]
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Google Docs sharing issue causes concern for cloud computing

Google today admitted to a potentially serious error in its Docs sharing system. While only .05% of all shared documents were affected, the potential for serious damage was significant for businesses.
The error amounted to wrongly sharing Google documents with someone “whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document”. The entire [...]
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FTC urged to investigate Google’s hosted services

A privacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google Inc.’s cloud computing services, including the popular Gmail hosted e-mail service, Google Docs and the Picasa photo sharing service, adequately protect users privacy.
The complaint (download PDF) by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed on Tuesday with the FTC, comes just weeks [...]
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Google returns Chrome to beta

Google Inc. yesterday reversed last December’s decision to ditch the beta label from its Chrome browser, saying it is restoring the moniker to some builds to get faster feedback to developers.
“Since we took the ‘beta’ tag off Google Chrome in December, we’ve been updating two release channels: developer and stable,” said Brian Rakowski, a Chrome [...]
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