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Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance. Vice: Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government’s Ever Sent (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

The internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God. Pope Franciscus (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

I think the strategy of merely shouting one’s opinions at the top of one’s lungs is not so fundamentally different from an act of terrorism. Japan: Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

Intel AMT is available in desktops, servers, ultrabooks, tablets, and laptops with Intel Core vPro processor family, including Intel Core i3, i5, i7, and Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 product family. […] Unfortunately this technology can provide a powerful backdoor to the managed platform that is fully operational and accessible, even while the PC is turned off. Wikipedia: Intel Active Management Technology (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

Heckler said that the officers were forced to use the Taser on the child because they were “fearing for his safety,” WCAU reported. The Raw Story: Pennsylvania cops Taser handcuffed 14-year-old in the face ‘for his safety’ (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

Die vom Kläger angeführte abschreckende Wirkung etwa vor einer Beteiligung an einer Demonstration hält der Landesvertreter nicht für ein Manko, sondern für eines der Ziele der Maßnahme. Heise Newsticker: Bayern verteidigt Kfz-Kennzeichen-Scanning (19.11.2013) (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

The day in Cuba when there is political change, I expect there to be monuments raised not to men who fought with weapons and machetes, but in the shape of a USB drive. Cuban blogger and dissident Yoani Sánchez (View on gamamb.tumblr.com)

The new approach was inspired by a remark made by the third author during his presentation of the factorization of the 768-bit RSA challenge at Crypto 2010: “We estimate that the energy required for the factorization would have sufficed to bring two 20° C Olympic size swimming pools to a boil.” […] Larger quantities of water need to be considered to fully appreciate the security offered by practically relevant cryptosystems. On average, The Netherlands enjoys a healthy daily average of 82 million cubic meters of rain […] It is found that 80-bit symmetric cryptosystems, 160-bit cryptographic hash functions, and 1130-bit...