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Internet privacy opinion after the NSA revelations

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Made me laugh   Transcript The Philosopher: Megan: “Privacy” is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the one in which our soci– Ponytail: So bored. The Crypto Nut: Cueball: My data is safe behind

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Paranoia deepens for security people as hardware trojans cloak

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I remember being back in college writing little trojans for windows and linux. Hardware trojans troubled one of my lecturers. He had been paranoid, for a great number of years, about the complexity of computer chips and during one such

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Linus Torvalds responds to petition to remove RdRand from /dev/random

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Really funny petition at http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-rdrand-from-dev-random-4 Linus’ reply: Where do I start a petition to raise the IQ and kernel knowledge of people? Guys, go read drivers/char/random.c. Then, learn about cryptography. Finally, come back here and admit to the world that

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