SCI-TECH

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John McAfee: ‘We Are Living in Orwell’s 1984 Now’
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Those Russians are at it yet again. The United Kingdom’s equivalent of the NSA, better known as GCHQ, issued a letter to all British Members of Parliament (MPs) warning them that Russia could threaten the British electoral processes and necessary action must be taken.

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Vault 7: what does it mean to America, and the expectations of of rights and privacy for the average citizen? Is the CIA’s covert hacking program an affront to the US Constitution? Are we at as dark place in western a society?
CrossTalk: Wikileaks strikes again. On full display are the CIA’s spy tools and methods. Snowden provided a briefing book on U.S. surveillance, but the CIA leaks could provide the blueprints. And your Samsung TV and iPhone are a big part of this.

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has revealed at a press conference earlier today that WikiLeaks will give tech companies which suffered ‘billions of dollars of damage’ when hacked by the CIA ‘exclusive access’ to its technical expertise.
Assange said the leaked information came from an isolated computer on the network at CIA headquarters in Virginia. He described the loss of the information as a “historic act of devastating incompetence.”

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Just 24 hours after the release of ‘Vault 7, Zero Day’, Wikileaks has claimed that less than 1% of Vault 7 has been released ‘so far’. This is surely to generate not only excitement amongst security analysts, researchers, software engineers and hackers alike, but considerable dread within the intelligence community. 

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Facebook knows best?
Facebook has begun its rollout of the “Disputed Story” tag, which allows only ABC News, FactCheck.org, the Associated Press, Snopes and Politifact to determine if a story is “fake news”.

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A group of top Silicon Valley tech companies have filed a rare legal brief stating Trump Administration’s Executive Order on immigration is discriminatory and “departs dramatically from the principles that have governed our immigration law for decades.”

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