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nmask Wikipedia Sock Puppets By the Way They Write
Researchers have developed a tool that could be used to uncover phony Wikipedia contributors.
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Software Beats Captcha, the Web's 'are You Human?' Test
California-based startup Vicarious says it has developed software that can successfully crack any text-based CAPTCHA program, defeating Google's reCAPTCHA program...
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?
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Smuggler-Spotting Software Sniffs Out Dodgy Shipments
Machine intelligence could make it easier to spot illicit cargo among the goods that move through the world's ports.
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Private Data Gatekeeper Stands Between You and the Nsa
OpenPDS allows users to see and control any third-party requests for their information.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater
China is developing a next-generation national Internet that reportedly is on a larger scale than anything being developed in the West.
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Kinect Sensor Poised to Leap Into Everyday Life
When Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn't long before people started getting excited about what it might make...
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
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Silent Skype Calls Can Hide Secret Messages
Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence.
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Warning, Speedsters: You Can't Fool Quantum Radar
Is it a bird, a plane, or a speeding car?
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How Metadata Brought Down CIA Boss David Petraeus
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus was brought down by metadata, which is not covered by the Stored Communications Act.
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Patent Could Shackle 3D Printers with Drm
One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing technology—the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets—may be denied...
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First Evidence For Iran's Parallel Halal Internet
Iranian officials have long discussed developing a religiously acceptable internal network, known as the "halal" Internet, which is isolated from the World Wide...
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The Real Tron: It Security as a Shoot 'em Up
MIT researchers have developed an approach that allows IT security professionals to patrol their assigned environments as if they were playing a first-person shooter...
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The Real Tron: It Security As a Shoot 'em p
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.
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