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    What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?

    It depends of course. But if the cloud only holds encrypted blobs, I'd say its pretty secure. This story is just one of the reasons why I'm working on this.
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    Evernote’s new privacy policy raises eyebrows

    What a coincidence that I've recently resumed working my own note-taking app with client-side encryption after a four year hiatus. Shameless plug: https://www.ciphernote.net/
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    Top German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties

    I don't think this has anything to do with trust but the simple fact that they don't give a damn. The NSA has most likely gathered so much dirty laundry about German Top Officials that the US has our (I'm german) entire government by the virtual balls. So, why care about allies when you can...
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    On the range with SilencerCo’s all-in-one suppressed Maxim 9 pistol

    It's "Heckler & Koch G36", not "Heckler & Kohn G36" *rolleyes* Apologies—I swear I knew that. Fixed!
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    Feds: Butterfly Labs mined bitcoins on customers’ boxes before shipping

    I was lucky to receive a refund three months ago for two Monarch orders worth 9000$. That was after BFL had my money for well over 10 months without delivering anything. Only after I've threatened them with legal action, my request for a refund was granted which took them another six weeks to...
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    Microsoft open sources a big chunk of .NET

    There's no AOT compilation for OSX Apps only for iOS which enforces the no-runtime rule.
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    Acer CEO resigns on the back of $446 million quarterly loss

    That same guy who loudly proclaimed that he wanted to turn Acer into something like Apple, while in reality the company couldn't be farther from Apple with their cheap, plastic crap. Good riddance.
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    Valve working with partners on “Steam Machine” hardware for 2014

    I don't see why anyone would like to install SteamOS on his computer, unless it is a dedicated gaming machine. And I don't see anyone picking up a "SteamMachine" over a PS4 or XBone either. This experiment will probably end up exactly like Ouya.
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    Microsoft’s hardware, round 2: Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

    When will Microsoft finally realize that their need to subsidize they hardware to crack the tablet and phone markets. Just like they did with the original XBox. And no, I'm not a MS hater - quite the opposite.
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    Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app (again), for “manufactured” reaso

    Microsoft should (I know they probably won't) release a patch on next Wednesday disabling Chrome on all Windows Versions and blocking Google Services and Ads for the remaining users accessing Google Services through IE. Would be interesting how many hours it would take Google to unblock...
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    Did Snowden’s travel plans hit a snag? Leaker fails to catch flight to Havana

    Only that he probably did it as a decoy and nothing else.
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    IBM's new mainframe aimed at assimilating "private clouds"

    That beast looks wickedly cool.
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    Microsoft's €899 million antitrust fine upheld by European court

    Thank god we still have Apple upholding our ethic values.
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    Google shifts stance on Google+ anonymity, will support pseudonyms

    Yeah sure "Google Apps integration is coming", like the past X times they promised feature X coming to Google Apps. It's ironic how Google seems to be less agile than Microsoft these days.
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    Apple leaks 2TB and 3TB Time Capsules, Airport Extremes imminent

    Looking at the hardware specs this thing contains just a single disk 2-3TB Disk without any kind of redundancy. Must be great losing 3TB worth of backups. Typical Apple Product.
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    LulzSec hackers demand hats, threaten release of <em>Brink</em> user data

    I'm normally pro hackers that use there knowledge to expose weaknesses without causing harm but those guys belong behind bars - quickly.
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    Mono team presses on with new startup after Attachmate layoffs

    Yeah I'm using in on a daily basis but that doesn't change the fact that Javascript's dynamically typed nature is inferior to C#, Java or any other statically typed language when it comes to maintainability.
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    Mono team presses on with new startup after Attachmate layoffs

    While Silverlight never gained any traction for internet Apps, it has gained a lot of traction for intranet and Line of Business Apps so Moonlight is absolutely no waste of time because it opens up the path to leverage Microsoft's great development tools to bring those apps to Honeycomb and IPad...
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    New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony

    God am I happy to not live in the US - the land of the free.
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    Windows Phone 7: The 10 features Microsoft should add ASAP

    Because he is on Apple's payroll.