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This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
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Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare. [Read more]...
FBI’s Steve Jobs file: He will ‘distort reality ... to achieve his goals’
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It turns out that even the FBI knew about Steve Jobs’s reality distortion field. On Thursday, the agency released its file on the late Apple co-founder, including results of a 1991 background check conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the White House’s export council under President...
FBI releases files on Steve Jobs: he was 'a deceptive individual'
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In 191 pages of documents, a portrait the Apple founder as a complex person of both 'integrity' and 'suspect' moral characterThe FBI has released its files on Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and icon of the business world, painting a picture of a complex man who is described both as "a...
Steve Jobs' FBI files made public
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The FBI releases its files on Apple founder Steve Jobs, revealing a man who commanded respect but was questioned on his honesty and morality....
Anon on the run: How Commander X jumped bail and fled to Canada
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Nate Anderson / Aurich Lawson “You scared?” asks the fugitive in the camouflage pants as he sidles up to our pre-arranged meeting point in a small Canadian park. He wears sunglasses to hide his eyes and a broad-brimmed hat to hide his face. He scans the park perimeter for...
A Look at Steve Jobs' FBI File
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Yes, it's true. The FBI had a file on Steve Jobs. It's not what you might think, though. The FBI performed a "level III" background investigation on Jobs as a potential presidential appointee in 1991. He was described by most witnesses as an "individual of good character and integrity" that...
Read FBI background report on Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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George H. Bush considered Steve Jobs for an appointment on the President's Council and the FBI check out the CEO's background....
FBI licenses Unreal games engine
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The Unreal computer games engines is being licensed to the FBI and other US government agencies to aid training....
The FBI’s Secret Surveillance Letters to Tech Companies
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Just what kind of information can the government get with a “national security letter” – the tool that allows investigators to seek financial, phone and Internet data without a judge’s approval? It’s a secret....
Steve Jobs FBI file reveals he was being considered for a Bush 1 1991 White House ‘sensitive position’
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Federal Bureau of Investigation has posted on its website a file on Apple’s co-founder and late CEO Steve Jobs. According to Gawker, the 191-page document reveals that Jobs was considered for a “sensitive position” in the Bush I White House back in 1991. It also contains results of an investigation into...
Steve Jobs FBI file reveals he was being considered for a Bush 1 1991 White House ‘sensitive position’
FBI file on Steve Jobs reveals he was considered for White House position
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its 191-page file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, revealing he was considered for an appointment to the White House in 1991, and that there was a bomb threat against him in 1985....
Read all 191 pages of Steve Jobs’ FBI file
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The FBI has released its full dossier on Steve Jobs. Jobs, who passed away just last October after a prolonged battle with cancer, is best known for his role as Apple’s enigmatic co-founder. However, the FBI seems to have cast Jobs in a number of other roles, as well...
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
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CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. [Read more]...
'Hackers' arrested in FBI swoop
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Three members of the infamous hacking group Lulzsec are arrested, and charges against other suspects are expected to follow....
UK Facebook account hacker hit with 12-month prison sentence
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Following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Central e-Crime unit, 21-year-old Gareth Cross of West Sussex was sentenced to twelve months after hacking into a private Facebook account. In January 2011, Crosskey gained unauthorised access to the Facebook account of an individual including the private email function. The breach...
The FBI Just Released Its 1991 Report On Steve Jobs (AAPL)
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The FBI just released its background check on Steve Jobs. It's 191 pages long! We're reading through it now and have embedded it here. The background check was done in conjunction with some sort of presidential appointment made for Jobs. Steve Jobs FBI Please follow SAI on Twitter and...
FBI releases background investigation on Steve Jobs from 1991
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Back in 1991, during his exile from Apple, Steve Jobs was actually considered for a position on the President George H. W. Bush's export council, an advisory committee on foreign trade. Now, more than 20 years later, the FBI has released the details of a background investigation on Jobs...
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Refuses to Give Up Passwords
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Megaupload continues its legal battle, both in the US and New Zealand. This week Dotcom and his legal team were at Auckland’s High Court to request a judicial review of the legality of the search warrants that were used to raid his Coatesville mansion in January. During the hearing Dotcom’s...
FBI releases Steve Jobs' background check: What's inside
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Steve Jobs background check with the FBI has just been released under an FoI request. Jobs was considered under President George H. W. Bush Snr. for the President’s Export Council....
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court
torrentfreak.com
A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing. The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Goliath) started out with a flurry of blows against the New Zealand based site staff,...
Here's how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak
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If you’re worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach of an FBI agent’s laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a tool to help you check. AntiSec claimed on Tuesday that it...
Accel pumps $50M into Tenable Network Security
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Ten years into its existence and already profitable, Tenable Network Security has accepted its first outside investment — a $50 million infusion from venture capital firm Accel Partners. That’s a large investment any way you slice it, but Tenable is poised to capitalize on some very big opportunities. Chief among...
Hackers claim proof the FBI is tracking Apple mobile devices
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Release 1 million iOS device IDs out of 12 million reportedly taken from an agent's laptop FORTUNE -- Toward the end of a bizarre rant that begins with a quote from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and ends with an off-color suggestion -- in German -- for the Republican candidate for...
Daily Wrap: Google Drive Will Be Different and more
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Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive doesn't have to be a Dropbox clone. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap...
How email trail aided Petraeus case
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Digital detective work to track down the author of anonymous email messages led the FBI to uncover the affair between Paula Broadwell and Gen David Petraeus....
Hactivist group Team Ghostshell takes credit for extensive breach
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The hacktivist group Team Ghostshell took credit Monday for the release of 1.6 million accounts and records stolen from government and private organizations covering aerospace, law enforcement, the military, the defense industry and banking. Among the organizations the group claimed to have stolen information included NASA's Center For Advanced...
LulzSec leader Sabu reportedly worked with the FBI to turn in other members
thenextweb.com
In what looks to be a massive blow to the loose-knit online collective LulzSec, the FBI has reportedly been working with the so-called leader of the group ‘Sabu’ to bring down its other members, Fox News reveals. This morning, police and law enforcement agencies worked together to apprehend five top-ranking members of...
Top LulzSec hackers arrested, group leader reportedly working for FBI
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The laughs are reportedly over for five top members of the hacker group LulzSec who were arrested on Tuesday and charged as part of a conspiracy case filed in New York federal court. FoxNews.com reports that the arrests were part of a multinational sting across the United Kingdom, Ireland and...
Kim Dotcom judge rules mansion raid was illegal
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New Zealand police 'exceeded authority' when storming home of Megaupload founder, who US wants to extraditeAttempts to extradite internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to the US have suffered a further setback with a ruling in the New Zealand high court that a raid on his Auckland mansion was illegal.Justice Helen Winkelmann...
FBI File Shocker: Steve Jobs Was a Willful, Mercurial Ex-Hippie and Computer Genius
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What did the FBI have on Steve Jobs? Not much according to its investigation of the late Apple founder and CEO’s background. The agency just released its file on Jobs, compiled during a background check conducted in the 1990s when Jobs was being considered for a spot on a White...
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