Tech – for Everyone

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An Antidote for The Mondays

Here’s a little something that I hope will get you through another Monday

Interesting reading:

DOJ busted by redaction mishap, names Google in ‘gagging order’ filing

The U.S. Justice Dept. appears to have been fooled — not by hackers, a foreign spy, or a former employee turned whistleblower — but by its own redaction tools.Read more..

Google’s self-certified hypocrisy

Google’s policies for accepting SSL certificates from web sites in Chrome are getting smarter and more restrictive. Their code signing certificate policies for Android started out lax and stupid and will stay that way.Read more..

China suffers ‘largest’ cyberattack; Censorship makes it difficult to gauge attack scope

Many Chinese websites are down following what authorities are describing as the “largest denial-of-service attack” it has ever faced. But because of heavy Internet regulation and censorship, it’s not clear to Western eyes how deep the attack went.Read more..

[What goes around, comes around?]

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Today’s quote:I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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August 26, 2013 Posted by | Android, computers, cyber crime, Google, hackers, Internet, News | Leave a comment