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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Readily available smartphone apps that scan airline boarding passes can alert passengers to whether or not they have been selected for additional screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), security experts warn. The barcodes contain information that reveals which security protocols a traveler will be subject to, the researchers said. The vulnerability involves the TSA’s pre-screening system known as...
A federal judge has given the go-ahead for an FBI warrant that will require Google to assist the federal agency in cracking into the Android cell phone of a suspected pimp currently under investigation for his role in a federal human tracking investigation. FBI agents confiscated one of suspect Dante Dears’ smartphones in mid-January believing it to contain important contacts and leads for the investigation. After several weeks of futile tinkering, however, specialists with the FBI...
Reports surfaced on Thursday claim that Facebook hired a PR firm to get USA Today and other news outlets to try and smear Google's name in the social network world. The Daily Beast confirmed that Facebook hired Burson-Marsteller, one of the world's largest PR firms, to get USA Today, the Washington Post and other high profile U.S. news outlets to write negative stories about Google's privacy policies. However, Paul Cordasco, a spokesman for Burson-Marsteller, told the Guardian that the...
