Get ready – it looks like Facebook is gearing up for another update – one that’s bound to get on the nerves of those who value their privacy. If you were miffed about how Facebook was taking liberties with our data in order to attract advertisers, then you’ll probably not be a fan of the […]
Bitcoins, a self-generated hash-based peer-to-peer currency with no centralized regulating body, are on a stratospheric trajectory, will it replace traditional legal tender as the currency of choice for cyber-nastiness? First, a little background. Bitcoins first surfaced in a white paper purportedly by Satoshi Nakamoto. While no one can trace his (her) exact identity, it seems […]
A chap by the name of Efim Bushmanov has just published a claim that he has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol. He hasn’t reversed it completely, and he hasn’t yet created any Skype-compatible alternative software, but that’s the stated goal of his work so far: While “Wall Street Journal” makes politics and skype today’s trend, i […]
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