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Trial Court Examines Stored Communications Act Applicability to Offline Mobile Phone

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law noted for its complexity, and the second portion of it, the Stored Communications Act (SCA) is no exception. At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.” At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.”

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — puts us one step closer to a working iO prototype. Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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IDEA 2008

ChiefTech

Linguistic User Interfaces – Chris Crawford Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of digging through nested menus buried inside subpanes of dialogs, we could just talk to our computers in plain language? Sure it would, but computer scientists have long since proven that such “natural language processing&# can’t be done.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Circle of Computing Life

ChiefTech

Sunday, 1 July 2007 The Circle of Computing Life I came across a great book a few weekends ago, called A Computer Called LEO , that tells the story of the first computer to be used by business. The first LEO or ""Lyons Electronic Office" consisted of: " 5,936 valves, plus another 300-400 in auxiliary equipment.

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FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology

Krebs on Security

Indeed, some of history’s largest cyberheists involved point-of-sale malware, including the 2008 breach at Heartland Payment Systems that exposed 100 million payment cards, and the 2013-2014 string of breaches at Target , Home Depot and elsewhere that led to the theft of roughly another 100 million cards.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Big Data Hub

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. Complex analytical queries atop huge datasets on the mainframe can eat up compute budgets and take hours or days to run.