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- Some say health-care site’s probs highlight flawed federal IT policies. Govt agencies have shortage of technical staff & long have outsourced most jobs to big contractors that are not on the cutting edge of developing user-friendly Web sites. http://wapo.st/19ipk2y 45 comments coding
- NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal -- Secret PRISM program gives intelligence agency access to web and email of Google, Facebook and Apple customers http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data?guni=network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20special%20trail:network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:position1 11 comments technology
- NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal -- Secret PRISM program gives intelligence agency access to web and email of Google, Facebook and Apple customers http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data?guni=network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20special%20trail:network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:position1 15 comments politics
- U.S. Aims to Force Web Services to Compromise Message Encryption: Frustrated that email and social network users can encrypt their messages, law-enforcement agencies want the feds to enact punitive measures to force cooperation. http://www.eweek.com/security/us-aims-to-force-web-services-to-compromise-message-encryption/ 13 comments privacy
- Are these guys crazy? UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7241-0-8-8--.html 18 comments politics