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Saudi Hacker 0x0mar from Mexico - identity uncovered by Israeli Student

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:59 AM EST ()

After few hours, Amir Fedida, an Israeli blogger uncovered the identity of the Saudi hacker 0xOmar who leaked the personal details of Israeli, Saudi hacker denying them as “another failure of Israeli”

world-news

Twitter unhappy about incorporation of Google+ into Google search

Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:31 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Seeded by Dennis M Wright

Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into search results. The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings.

technology

Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m

Seeded on Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:58 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Seeded by Dennis M Wright

The documents were signed by the firm's three co-founders, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976. The papers include an amendment added 11 days later when Mr Wayne quit.

technology

Julian Assange: Smartphone Users 'Screwed' by Surveillance States

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 4:39 PM EST (International Business Times)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder) at a London press conference stated that users of iPhone, Blackberry or Gmail are "screwed" and intelligence contractors sell citizens' personal information.

google, us, america, australia, spying, e-mail, blackberry, obama, world-news, uk

Full disk encryption is too good, says US intelligence agency

Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:19 PM EST ()

Seeded by Benno Hansen

You might be shocked to learn this, but when a quivering-lipped Chloe from 24 cracks the encryption on a terrorist’s hard drive in 30 seconds, the TV show is faking it.

technology, police, computers, encryption, data, forensics

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of Diaspora, dies at 22

Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:54 PM EST (CNN)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of four co-founders of social network Diaspora, died over the weekend in San Francisco at age 22. Zhitomirskiy committed suicide, a source close to the company told CNNMoney on Sunday.

technology, death, privacy, suicide, diaspora, software, open-source, social-networking, programming, ilya-zhitomirskiy

Evil fiction: teacher a target of fake Facebook profile, police hunting perp

Seeded on Sun Aug 7, 2011 9:42 AM EDT (The Age)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Australian Police are hunting the creator of a fake Facebook profile that was used to impersonate an anti-racist Sydney primary school teacher and frame him as a paedophile by targeting kids at his school.

australia, it, computer, racism, pc, world-news, sydney, facebook, defamation, oz

Government drops website blocking

Seeded on Wed Aug 3, 2011 8:35 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Seeded by Dennis M Wright

Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government. Business secretary Vince Cable announced the change following a review of the policy by telecoms regulator Ofcom.

technology