As reported on Wired. BY MATT BLAZE AND SUSAN LANDAU Photo: dustball / Flickr Just imagine if all the applications and services you saw or heard about at CES last week had to be designed to be “wiretap ready” before they could be offered on the market. Before regular people like you or me could use them. Yet that’s a real possibility. For the last few years, the FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet…
As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT’s website and left a tribute message to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. ”We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites,” writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous, on a subdomain of the official MIT.edu website. “We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all…
As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Bob Nystrom, the brain behind a new programming language known as Vigil. Photo: Bob Nystrom Bob Nystrom is the author of the first programming language that automatically deletes your code if it doesn’t behave the way it’s supposed to. He calls his creation Vigil because it exhibits “supreme moral vigilance.” “When a Vigil program is executed, Vigil itself will monitor all oaths,” Nystrom writes in his description of the new…
As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Verizon customers saw a flash of excitement this weekend when an alleged hacker claimed to have pilfered personal data for some three million of its wireless customers. Twitter user TibitXimer shared 300,000 names from the file, claiming to have collected them as early as July 12th. According to Verizon, the would-be hacker’s claims are bunk — the leaked data has been available for months, and it’s populated by Verizon FiOS customers.…