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Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective Mar 10, 2017

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US intelligence agencies face a difficult task. They are supposed to provide meaningful analysis that enables officials to manage serious national security problems such as terrorism, weapons proliferation, network attacks on government infrastructure, and counterintelligence efforts. Today these are diffuse and complex threats. There are newly powerful political actors on the international stage. Organizations that are not governments and have no physical territory can inflict great harm.

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If the Feds Did Wiretap Trump Tower, It’s Not Obama Who Should Worry Mar 09, 2017

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It started, like so many eruptions these days, with a tweet. Early Saturday morning, President Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing, without evidence, former PresidentBarack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the month before the election. Trump compared the alleged snooping to “Nixon/Watergate,” and intimated legal action. What makes the broader allegation so extraordinary isn’t that it is new. Quite the contrary.

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Security News This Week: An IoT Teddy Bear Leaked Millions of Parent and Child Voice Recordings Mar 08, 2017

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It was a week of could have beens and still coulds in security. We took a long look at a plan to stop rogue drones that might work great, if it’s ever legal. We looked at how Trump should spend that extra $54 billion on defense, if he insists. And we looked at Google’s end-to-end encryption hopes for Gmail, which appear to have faded over the last three years. Oh, also, some rogue stuffed bears made a great case against the Internet of Toys.

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The Golden Age of Email Hacks Is Only Getting Started Mar 07, 2017

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As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence conducted state business usinghis personal email account. An AOL account. Soof course someone hacked it. Witha phishing scam. This story offers no end of rolling punchlines, the kicker being thevitriol the vice president showed during the campaigntoward Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

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How Trump Should Spend That Extra $54 Billion on Defense Mar 06, 2017

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In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump said he’s preparing “a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the Defense sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” The day before the speech, White House officials said the administration planned to propose a “historic” $54 billion increase in the defense budget.

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Get Ready for the Next Security Nightmare: Medical Devices Mar 03, 2017

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Hacked medical devices have made scary headlines for years now. Dick Cheney ordered changes to his pacemaker to better protect it from hackers. Johnson & Johnson warned customers about a security bug in one of its insulin pumps last fall. And St. Jude has spent months dealing with the fallout of vulnerabilities in some of the company’s defibrillators, pacemakers, and other medical electronics. You’d think by now medical device companies would have learned something about security reform.

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The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives Mar 02, 2017

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Right now, in a vault controlled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, there sits a 752-pound emerald with no rightful owner. This gem is the size of a minifridge. It weighs as much as two sumo wrestlers. Estimates of its worth range from a hundred bucks to $925 million. Eight years ago the emerald was logged into evidence by detectives Scott Miller and Mark Gayman of the Sheriff’s Major Crimes Bureau. The two men are longtime veterans: 30 years for Miller, 28 for Gayman.

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