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Submission + - Krebs hacker unmasked, hit Ars and Wired's Honan (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by altjira on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:46PM

altjira writes: Brian Krebs, hot on the tail of the hacker who DDOS his site and SWATted his home, followed up on a tip, found the dox, called and then outed his hacker. Turns out it may have been the same guy who hit Wired's Mat Honan and Ars Technica.

Submission + - Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy (gregrperry.com)

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altjira

on Sunday December 28, 2008 @08:04AM

altjira writes: "Matt Blaze analyzes the implications of a recent Newsweek story on the Bush administration's use of the NSA for domestic spying on communications, and questions whether the lower legal threshold for the collection of communications metadata is giving away too much to the government: 'As electronic communication pervades more of our daily lives, transaction records — metadata — can reveal quite a bit about us, indeed often much more than a few out-of-context conversations might. Aggregated into databases with other people's records (or perhaps everyone's records) and analyzed by powerful software, metadata by itself can paint a remarkably detailed picture of connections, relationships, and other patterns that could never be recovered simply from listening to the conversations themselves.'"

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