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EFF-Supported Bill Requiring Warrant for Cell Phone Searches Passes CA Legislature, Goes to Gov. Brown

hanni — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:08:41 PDT

In May, we asked EFF members to write their California legislators and urge them to support SB...

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Search Redirection and the Illicit Online Prescription Drug Trade

schneier — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:47:42 PDT

Really interesting research. Search-redirection attacks combine several well-worn tactics from...

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Smuggling Drugs in Unwitting People's Car Trunks

schneier — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:59:08 PDT

This is clever: A few miles away across the Rio Grande, the FBI determined that Chavez and Gomez...

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Computer Search and Seizure: A Three-Panel Cartoon

rainey — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:04:41 PDT

Think you know what to do when law enforcement seeks access to your digital device? Test your...

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A definition of a leader...

Seth Godin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:44:00 PDT

Leaders lead. Is that too simple? Writers write. If you want to be a writer, write. And be sure...

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Time for a workflow audit

Seth Godin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:52:00 PDT

Go find a geek. Someone who understands gmail, Outlook, Excel and other basic tools. Pay her to...

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Comic for 20 Mar 2011

(author unknown) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:00:00 PDT

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How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street and the Global Economy

Jason Kottke — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:36:37 PDT

That's the title of an article written by Michael Lewis in 1989. A big quake has hit Tokyo...

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Art is what we call...

Seth Godin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:52:00 PST

the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a...

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Accomplish No/Every-thing

Karol — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:11:49 PST

A few days ago a friend sent me an interview with a struggling actor. This actor got a few...

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Feature: Near Field Communications: a technology primer

chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:30:39 PST

Near field communication (NFC) has recently popped up in the news. The technology is most closely...

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Sword-tip video camera

Jason Kottke — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:28:41 PST

What does it look like when you put a video camera on the tip of a sword and swing it around?...

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Seen On The Streets Of Tehran, Iran

Marc — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:12:14 PST

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Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting

schneier — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:02:05 PST

The whitelist/blacklist debate is far older than computers, and it's instructive to recall what...

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US military suicide

Jason Kottke — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:45:12 PST

This is an amazing statement: For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more...

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"The technological revolution is more intertwined every day with our economy and our society—more..."

(author unknown) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:43:23 PST

“The technological revolution is more intertwined every day with our economy and our society—more...

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Department of Wow, or, Valuing a Great Teacher

Pete Abbate — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:22:49 PST

A new NBER working paper from Eric Hanushek makes the following claim: A teacher one standard...

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Humble Indie Bundle 2 Embraces BitTorrent

enigmax — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:30:31 PST

Just in time for the Christmas holidays, the guys who brought us the Humble Indie Bundle have done...

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Use Facebook Places and Foursquare to Find Last-Minute Gift Ideas [Gift Ideas]

Kevin Purdy — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:00:00 PST

What's the point of all those check-ins your friends inundate you with? Who cares that they checked...

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Photo of the Day: December 17, 2010

(author unknown) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:07:04 PST

Arlington National Cemetery is a hauntingly beautiful place. KentonNgo shows us how the bare trees...

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