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Getty / The Atlantic The Twitter Hacks Have to Stop
Twitter and companies like it are essential to the functioning of the economy and the country. The government needs to start treating them that way, and that means both requiring them to do a better job on security and breaking them up.
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The Atlantic / Getty Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It
They’re mouthpieces for foreign actors, domestic political groups, even the candidates themselves. And soon you won’t be able to tell they’re bots.
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Matt Rourke / AP Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure
But most of us aren’t the president of the United States.
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Thomas Samson / Getty The New Way Your Computer Can Be Attacked
Unprecedented computer-chip vulnerabilities exposed this month paint a grim picture of the future of cybersecurity.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters / Zak Bickel / … Online Voting Won’t Save Democracy
But letting people use the internet to register to vote is a start.
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Alex Brandon / AP How Long Until Hackers Start Faking Leaked Documents?
There’s nothing stopping attackers from manipulating the data they make public.
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Robert Pratta / Reuters How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice
A recent dustup over smart light bulbs illuminates a larger problem.
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momentcaptured1 / Flickr The Meanest Email You Ever Wrote, Searchable on the Internet
The doxing of Ashley Madison reveals an uncomfortable truth: In the age of cloud computing, everyone is vulnerable.
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Vincent Kessler/Reuters What's Next in Government Surveillance
A future awaits where countries share intelligence one minute, and hack and cyberattack each other the next.
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Davide Restivo/Flickr We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony
Welcome to a world where it's impossible to tell the difference between random hackers and governments.
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Jason Lee/Reuters Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
It's too early to take the U.S. government at its word.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters What Are the Limits of Police Subterfuge?
A warrantless FBI search in Las Vegas sets a troubling precedent.
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Reuters Should U.S. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?
Maybe someday we'll patch vulnerabilities faster than the enemy can use them in an attack, but we're not there yet.
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Jason Lee / Reuters Don’t Listen to Google and Facebook: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership Is Still Going Strong
And real corporate security is still impossible.
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Reuters There's No Real Difference Between Online Espionage and Online Attack
You can't hack passively.
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Gary Lerude / Flickr Everything We Know About How the NSA Tracks People's Physical Location
With Monday's new revelation, we can see the NSA's two-pronged system for finding out where people are.
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How the NSA Threatens National Security
Our choice isn't between a digital world where the agency can eavesdrop and one where it cannot; our choice is between a digital world that is vulnerable to any attacker and one that is secure for all users.
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A Fraying of the Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
The secret eavesdropping ecosystem is breaking down, thanks to the Snowden documents.
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The Battle for Power on the Internet
Distributed citizen groups and nimble hackers once had the edge. Now governments and corporations are catching up. Who will dominate in the decades ahead?
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