Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, September 27, 2010,
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Communications
The Obama administration wants to hear from you---without you knowing it---in new ways. It's drafting a bill right now, to be introduced early next year, which will enable the Feds to tap into your E-mail over the Internet and when you use wireless phones. For a number of years, our government has been spying on us as we make phone calls over landlines with a device called Carnivore, but it's unable to break the encryption codes used by the Internet, so they want Internet providers and cell... Continue reading ...
South Korea Has More Cell Phones Than People
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, September 15, 2010,
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Technology
Think Americans have a love affair with their cell phones? Move over, friend, because South Korea has us beat. In a country with 48.8 million people, South Korea's Communications Commission reports that there are over 50 million cell phones in use. This means, theoretically, that there are some 1.2 million people wandering around with at least two phones, but if you factor in young children and people without a cell phone, the number is greater. Just like in some Arab nations and Japan, m... Continue reading ...
BlackBerry Troubles Expand
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
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Technology
Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry phones, has been singled out as a security threat recently in the Middle East because of the secure encryption it uses, which makes it impossible for outside sources to decode E-mails and messages sent with these phones. Saudi Arabia has issued a ban on BlackBerries, which may be lifted as soon as that country can evaluate the security and encryption codes that Research In Motion has supplied them with. India is getting in on the action now, citing Bl... Continue reading ...