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Why Britain's New Cyberwar Capabilities May Just Be Political Posturing
September 30, 2013 Britain’s defense minister Philip Hammond made a startling statement yesterday: “We are developing a full-spectrum military cyber capability, including a strike capability, to enhance the UK’s range of military capabilities.” This is not the first time a government has admitted to developing such capabilities. But it is the first time ...
Britain’s New Cyberwar Strike Capabilities May Just Be Political Posturing
September 30, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Britain’s defense minister Philip Hammond made a startling statement: “We are developing a full-spectrum military cyber capability, including a strike capability, to enhance the UK’s range of military capabilities.” This is not the first time a government has admitted to developing such capabilities. But it is the first time one ...
How to Get a $173,000 Job as the NSA’s Privacy Officer
September 24, 2013 Do you have a passion for civil liberties and protecting the privacy of ordinary citizens? Are you “well known and highly regarded by US privacy and civil liberties protection professionals?” Can you be both righteous and morally flexible? Then the American National Security Agency has just the job for you. ...
Wanted: A New Privacy Officer at the NSA
September 24, 2013 Do you have a passion for civil liberties and protecting the privacy of ordinary citizens? Are you “well known and highly regarded by U.S. privacy and civil liberties protection professionals?” Can you be both righteous and morally flexible? Then the National Security Agency has just the job for you. The ...
These Are the Codes You Need to Crack to Get a Job as a British Cyberspy
September 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
A website, canyoufindit.co.uk, just went live. It contains 28 sets of five letters and one set of three letters. There are five answers. If you get them right, you may be on your way to joining GCHQ, Britain’s signals-intelligence agency, in either the “cyber and technical operations,” “maths and cryptography” ...
Superstar Programmers Can Get Paid as Much as Pro Athletes
September 9, 2013
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It’s always nice to be paid your “true value.” Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says that is what is happening now in the technology industry, where some engineers are drawing multi-million dollar paychecks. Andreessen explains it this way: A change in Google’s algorithms can sometimes be worth as much as $100 ...
Google Is Waging War on Apps That Attack, Infiltrate and Steal From Your Phone
September 5, 2013
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Late last month, Google made sweeping changes to its policies for developers on Play, the official store for apps that run on Android, Google’s smartphone operating system. The changes, which among other things affect how ads are displayed and permissions sought, are meant to make Android safer so users can ...
How a Simple Browser Extension Could Help You Ward Off the Syrian Electronic Army
September 3, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Shortly after several news organizations had email and Twitter accounts hacked into by the Syrian Electronic Army in May this year, Atlantic Media—which owns Quartz, Nextgov and other publications—ran a test to see how many of us would fall victim to something similar. We each received an email that appeared ...
Scientists Are Scouring the Globe for Mystery Bacteria to Help Reduce Our Dependence on Fertilizer
August 23, 2013
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Researchers from Michigan State University and Imperial College London have just received $1.87 million in funding to conduct a treasure hunt. It will take them from Germany to Hawaii in the US and elsewhere, in search of the smallest needle—a particular type of bacteria—in a haystack the size of the ...
Think Google Glass Invades Your Privacy? Here’s a Wristband that Records Audio 24 Hours a Day
August 23, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
So you heard a great joke at the pub last night but don’t remember the punchline. Was it was a priest or a lumberjack who walked into a bar with a three-legged okapi? Fret no more, because a Cincinnati-based company wants to produce a solution to the problem of lousy ...
