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Steam goes public on data breach – but will it delay the launch of Skyrim?

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Nov

2011

Steam, the online empire of computer game behemoth Valve Corporation, has issued details of the hack it suffered last weekend: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users, Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums. We learned that […]

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Google Plus opens to everyone – but do you still want to join?

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Sep

2011

If you will pardon the literary allusion (or, if you prefer, the flagrant plundering of someone else’s catch-phrase), “Google is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So differently, in fact, that until legal and community pressure forced Google’s hand back in 2008, the company just plain refused to have a link to its […]

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Google relents, offers “WiFi sniffing” opt-out

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Sep

2011

An article on Google’s grandly-named European Public Policy Blog, which offers “Google’s views on government, policy and politics in Europe”, has gently announced what the search-and-advertising behemoth calls A new option for location-based services. Google’s location-based services rely extensively on its controversial global database of WiFi access points. The idea is simple. Google’s many StreetView […]

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