Entries Tagged as 'Around the World'
UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time:
New laws going into effect today in the United Kingdom make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data requested by authorities as part of a criminal or terror investigation. Individuals who are believed to have the cryptographic keys necessary [...]
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I’m sitting in Einstein’s this morning, and there is a table of four young co-eds to my left. They are discussing the trip one of them took to Belize this summer and how they should all go there for spring break. I’m glad they aren’t having to drive there because apparently, judging by their discussion, [...]
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Truemors :: Japan’s Enormous, Colossal, Gigantic Skyscraper:
Even Godzilla plans on skipping the ascent.
Holy crap! Fourth grade social studies taught me that Japan is short on land area, but this is insane! To think of more than five times the population of my home town living in one stratospheric building is nuts, yet that [...]
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