Study finds malware lurking in Amazon, Google and Groupon cloud services - PC & Tech Authority: "Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of California Santa Barbara scanned more than 140,000 sites on 20 major cloud hosting services and found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised, according to the “Lurking Malice in the Cloud: Understanding and Detecting Cloud Repository as a Malicious Service” report."

So many places to hide, so many surfaces to protect.

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Baltimore cops: We flew high-res camera planes to film your every move • The Register: "As the ACLU's senior policy analyst and privacy expert Jay Stanley told Businessweek in its extensive report on PSS, the system – which uses a bank of cameras on a plane to provide a live-feed and 45-day archive of all activity in a 30-square-mile area – is "where the rubber meets the road" when it comes to the balance between security and privacy."

SKYNET lives.

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Kazakhstan will require internet surveillance back doors Want to know why it's a bad idea for the government to ask for back door access to your data? Here's why. As of January 1st, Kazakhstan will require the presence of a "national security certificate" on every internet-capable device in the country.

Isn't it great you don't have a way to delete the system-installed trusted root certificates on the iPhone? Between the proliferation of drones and these great unix devices, can we now just be clear that the conditions for the Skynet robot overlords are now in place?

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