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Submission + - SPAM: Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies.

In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan and Israel worried that the U.S. electronic spy agency was pushing the new techniques not because they were good encryption tools, but because it knew how to break them.

The NSA has now agreed to drop all but the most powerful versions of the techniques — those least likely to be vulnerable to hacks — to address the concerns.
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Comment Re: Go ahead, copy Samsung and Apple (Score 1) 45

There are dozens of us!! But seriously...I love my secondary display because it acts like a quick launch bar - and has access to the builtin flashlight app which has been conspicuously absent from Samsung devices. That's not the dealbreaker, though. Removable batteries are mandatory, as well as upgradable storage. Looks like a lot of us are going to be suffering with ancient phones...

Comment Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences (Score 1) 270

Their good performance is due in large part to the older audience that wants their older content and is willing to tolerate ads. I tried their paid service and was still subjected to ads. I will not use Hulu, and I think a lot of other GenX, GenY, 90's kids, and millennials will feel the same way. This move by Disney is only going to drive piracy.

Submission + - Wikimedia executives receive six-figure golden handshakes

Submitted by Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe writes: The Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) recently released Form 990 shows that the organisation has developed a practice of handing outgoing managers six-figure severance payments, The Register reports. The foundation, which relies entirely on unpaid volunteers to generate the content of its websites, has taken around $300 million dollars over the past five years through fundraising banners placed on Wikipedia. The WMF says it is "committed to communicating with our volunteers, donors, and stakeholders in an open, accountable, and timely manner", but has long been criticised for providing little transparency on the salaries of its executives, limiting itself to the legally required Form 990 disclosures that only become public two years after the event.

Submission + - Here's what happened when Iran introduced a basic income

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: In 2011, in response to heavy cuts to oil and gas subsidies, Iran implemented a program that guaranteed citizens cash payments of 29 percent of the nation's median income, which amounts to about $1.50 every day. (In the U.S. such a measure would translate to about $16,000 per year.) Now, six years later, the results of that measure were released in a report by economists Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mohammad H. Mostafavi-Dehzooeifrom for the Economic Research Forum.

The report found no evidence for the idea that people will work less under a universal income, and found that in some cases, like in the service industry, people worked more, expanding their businesses or pursuing more satisfying lines of work. The researchers did find that young people — specifically people in their twenties — worked less, but noted that Iran never had a high level of employment among young people, and that they were likely enrolling in school with the added income.

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