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Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts — March 16th 2024 at 13:00
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.
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Sinking Section 702 Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

By Dell Cameron — March 15th 2024 at 17:25
For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that’s left to do now is vote.
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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

By Thor Benson — March 13th 2024 at 17:42
Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.
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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764

By Ali Winston — March 13th 2024 at 12:00
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules

By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica — March 13th 2024 at 09:00
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.
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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

By Dell Cameron — March 12th 2024 at 19:14
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.
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Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria

By Andy Greenberg — March 12th 2024 at 04:03
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Fails to Answer

By Garrett M. Graff — March 11th 2024 at 17:52
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.
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ShellFeck: A BrainF*ck Inspired Shell Obfuscation Proof-of-Concept

By /u/Aaron_Dj0nt — March 11th 2024 at 15:18

This proof-of-concept combines a BrainFck interpreter with shell command obfuscation. It maps every 8-bit value to a BrainFck command, making detection difficult.

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Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

By Amanda Hoover, Matt Burgess — March 11th 2024 at 14:38
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.
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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints

By Matt Burgess — March 11th 2024 at 07:00
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.
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Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts — March 9th 2024 at 14:00
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.
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