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PC World - With the help of about 200 Sony PlayStations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly undetectable phishing attack.
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CNET - Updated at 3:30 p.m. PST with Microsoft comment, at 1:50 p.m. PST with VeriSign comment, at 10 a.m. PST with comment from cryptography expert Paul Kocher, and at 9 a.m. PST to reflect that presentation has taken place and include comment from cryptography expert Bruce Schneier.
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PC Magazine - FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is reportedly dropping plans for free, national broadband service whose only restriction would be that pornography would be forbidden.
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Reuters - A prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger has been detained and his case is being investigated, Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday in the first official public confirmation about his whereabouts.
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CNET - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations filed suit against U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week, complaining that the Homeland Security Department cannot legally require federal contractors to use its online worker verification database.
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Reuters - Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.
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