My Way News - Turkish court backs Twitter but site still blocked:
My Way News reports: "Turkey last week suspended access to Twitter, which has been a conduit
for links to recordings suggesting corruption by Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan's government, which faces local elections on Sunday.
The government then blocked access to YouTube following the leak of an
audio recording of a top security meeting where officials allegedly
discussed a military intervention in neighboring Syria."
2014/03/31
2014/03/21
My Way News - Turkish attempt to ban Twitter appears to backfire:
My Way News reports: "Turkey's attempt to block access to Twitter appeared to backfire on Friday with many tech-savvy users circumventing the ban and suspicions growing that the prime minister was using court orders to suppress corruption allegations against him and his government."
My Way News reports: "Turkey's attempt to block access to Twitter appeared to backfire on Friday with many tech-savvy users circumventing the ban and suspicions growing that the prime minister was using court orders to suppress corruption allegations against him and his government."
2014/03/19
My Way News - Google redesigns Android to power smartwatches
My Way News reports: "Smartwatches and Google Glass are just two of the first examples of how computing devices increasingly are expected to become like appendages to the human body as technology advances and connecting to the Internet becomes as reflexive as breathing. Google executives have even openly talked about day when it might be possible to help people live longer and more enjoyable lives by planting chips in their heads or under their skin."
My Way News reports: "Smartwatches and Google Glass are just two of the first examples of how computing devices increasingly are expected to become like appendages to the human body as technology advances and connecting to the Internet becomes as reflexive as breathing. Google executives have even openly talked about day when it might be possible to help people live longer and more enjoyable lives by planting chips in their heads or under their skin."
My Way News - NSA collects all phone calls in a foreign country
My Way News reports: "The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. At the request of U.S. officials, the Post said it would not identify the targeted country or other countries where the program's use was envisioned by officials."
My Way News reports: "The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. At the request of U.S. officials, the Post said it would not identify the targeted country or other countries where the program's use was envisioned by officials."
2014/03/13
My Way News - Incentives are coming for payments by phones
My Way News reports: "A variety of mobile wallet systems store credit or debit card information on phones in encrypted form, offering more security than standard plastic cards with magnetic stripes. To make a purchase, simply tap the phone on a card reader or wave a bar code over a scanner. There's convenience in not having to fish out your card. Yet most people still prefer plastic."
My Way News reports: "A variety of mobile wallet systems store credit or debit card information on phones in encrypted form, offering more security than standard plastic cards with magnetic stripes. To make a purchase, simply tap the phone on a card reader or wave a bar code over a scanner. There's convenience in not having to fish out your card. Yet most people still prefer plastic."
My Way News - Report: UK spies intercept webcam pics, nudity
My Way News reports: "Britain's signals intelligence division is stealing screenshots from hundreds of thousands of innocent Yahoo users' webcam videos, according to the Guardian newspaper, which also reported that the years-long operation has swept up a huge haul of intimate photographs."
My Way News reports: "Britain's signals intelligence division is stealing screenshots from hundreds of thousands of innocent Yahoo users' webcam videos, according to the Guardian newspaper, which also reported that the years-long operation has swept up a huge haul of intimate photographs."
My Way News - US network to scan workers with secret clearances
My Way News reports: "Intelligence officials have long wanted a computerized system that could monitor employees, in part to foil leakers like former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden, whose revelations bared massive U.S. surveillance operations. Such a system might also detect troubling signs in those who already hold security clearances, such as the shooter in last year's mass killings at Washington's Navy Yard. Many of the nearly 4 million government employees who hold secret clearances would be scanned by the new system, officials say."
My Way News reports: "Intelligence officials have long wanted a computerized system that could monitor employees, in part to foil leakers like former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden, whose revelations bared massive U.S. surveillance operations. Such a system might also detect troubling signs in those who already hold security clearances, such as the shooter in last year's mass killings at Washington's Navy Yard. Many of the nearly 4 million government employees who hold secret clearances would be scanned by the new system, officials say."
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