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Linux and Other Open Source Technologies Protect Online Privacy: Snowden by https://is.gd/PlAzLb

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who is living in exile since 2013 when he uncovered NSA’s surveillance operations. However, the tech world’s robin hood makes quite a few virtual appearances and gives his views on the state of privacy.

Snowden’s latest Q&A interaction happened with OpenStack Foundation’s COO Mark Collier over a video conference call during the OpenStack Summit. Snowden emphasized that premium cloud platform and proprietary software are a dent on people’s privacy.

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Your smart TV’s privacy policy explained by https://is.gd/csR4Pe

Let’s be honest here — most of us don’t read the privacy policies for smart televisions. And even if we try to, it’s often difficult to read them, particularly on a television screen. Some televisions even display the massive policies five lines at a time.

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What you need to know about the privacy of the new smart camera Amazon wants you to put in your bedroom by https://is.gd/rTqna4

Amazon’s newest version of its Echo smart-home device, the Look, boasts a built-in video camera that can capture your outfits and provide fashion recommendations.

That’s a big step toward a lifestyle of the future.

But it also creates some important privacy issues that are worth keeping in mind if you’re considering buying the $199 Echo Look.

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How to Enable/Disable ‘Location Tracking’ on ‘Opera’ browser? by https://is.gd/1vhof9

How to Use the Network Security Toolkit by https://is.gd/ak5A4a

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is an analysis and validation tool which can be used on enterprise virtual servers that host virtual machines. Get acquainted with NST in this article. NST provides a security toolkit for network administrators.

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Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments by https://is.gd/4N1Jbq

Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable dataset for training convolutional neural networks probably wasn’t top of their list when they signed up to swipe.

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Use WhatsApp As A Quick, Secure Way To Transfer Or Temporarily Store Files Online by https://is.gd/wH4wt2

Finding a place to securely save files online or send them between computers is surprisingly difficult. Over at Digital Inspiration, Amit Agarwal uses WhatsApp as a clever workaround to store through an encrypted connection. Here’s you can do it too.

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Phishing with Unicode Domains by http://bit.ly/2pk366O

If I told you this could be a phishing site, would you believed me? tl;dr: check out the proof-of-concept Punycode makes it possible to register domains with foreign characters. It works by converting individual domain label to an alternative format using only ASCII characters.

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Why can’t Karen Sandler get the source code for her pacemaker? by https://is.gd/kXRkfk

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration threatened legal action against Abbott Laboratories after researchers demonstrated that some of its heart-monitoring devices were insecure and could be hacked. It’s not a new problem.

It’s not a new problem. The white hat hacker Barnaby Jack showed in 2011 how insulin pumps could be remotely hijacked by a hacker, and the lack of adequate cybersecurity regulations for medical devices has been well-documented.

But none of this has gotten Karen Sandler any closer to getting the source code for her pacemaker.

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