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When a user enters a PIN into the card the display shows a one-time number with which to authenticate each online credit card transaction. With EMUE’s technology, even if all of these details are stolen the hacker is unable to make any online transactions because the security code is different each time.
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Take care when searching for WordPress that you do not end up on a fake WordPress site. Wordpresz.org looks like theWordPress site but isn’t.

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Separately, in Senate question time today, Greens senator Scott Ludlam accused the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, of misleading the public by falsely claiming his mandatory censorship plan was similar to that already in place in Sweden, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.  

  Grilled by a Senate Estimates committee in October, Senator Conroy said Britain, Sweden, Canada and New Zealand had all implemented similar filtering systems.

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Everything entered using the keyboard, including online banking details and passwords for services such as Facebook.  

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Google has taken another step in its effort to shed light on the so-called “Dark Web” with an announcement that its engine can now search scanned documents in Adobe Systems’ PDF format.
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Former US vice president Al Gore said an internet revolution carrying Barack Obama to the White House should now focus its power on stopping Earth’s climate crisis.  

  The internet’s critical role in Democrat Obama’s victory in the presidential race against Republican John McCain was a “great blow for victory” in addressing a “democracy crisis” stifling action against climate change, Gore said.   Continue Reading »

Google Inc pulled out of a search advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc due to regulatory objections, causing Yahoo shares to rise as investors hoped the move could lead to a resumption of deal talks with Microsoft Corp.   Microsoft had lobbied hard against the partnership which Yahoo initially struck with Google as a way to fend off an unsolicited takeover bid from Microsoft.  

  ”(Yahoo) investors are reacting favorably to the news (that the Google deal is off) as it might open the door to a possible deal with Microsoft, including a possible outright takeover of Yahoo,” said Frederic Ruffy, options strategist at New York-based Web site WhatsTrading.com.

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Twitter Squatting

Think back for a moment to the early days of the Internet when domain name registrations were free. Imagine how rich you would be if you had thought to reserve “internet.com”, “business.com”, or any two or three letter domain name for that matter. Twitter attempts to limit reservations by requiring a unique email address for each sign-up. That is circumvented by using the Google “plus sign” email trick. Simply append something (your new Twitter ID for instance) to your Google email address like stiennon+itharvest@gmail.com. Gmail treats that as stiennon@gmail.com but Twitter thinks it is unique. It turns out you can just make up any old email address and Twitter will allow you to create a new ID.

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Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, hasn’t said whether she will run for governor of California in 2010.  On Oct. 15, Whitman filed a petition with the World Intellectual Property Organization to claim rightful ownership of five web addresses, known as URLs. They are: megwhitmanforgovernor.com megwhitman2010.com meg2010.com whitmanforgovernor.com whitman2010.com. Mitch Zak, a Republican strategist working with Whitman, said she was solely focused on McCain’s race, but he added that her advisers are “definitely pursuing URLs to give Meg options should she choose to run for governor.” 

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The report was compiled using data derived from public sources (newspaper articles, blog entries, submissions to government inquiries, privacy policies etc), information provided by present and former company staff, technical analysis and interviews with company representatives.  

Interim results are available here in PDF format: Interim Rankings

 PI is based in London, and has an office in Washington, D.C. Together with members in 40 countries, PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems and medical privacy, and works with a wide range of NGO’s, academic institutions and inter-governmental organizations.

  Campaigning against corporate privacy practices, e.g. Amazon  Identifying the problems in technology design, e.g.problems with advertising in Gmail  Monitoring and campaigning against the disclosure of data from companies to governments, e.g. EU-US PNR, SWIFT, Telecommunications companies  Founding and running the Big Brother Awards, now held annually in over 15 countries, that identify ‘worst corporate invaders’,  Campaigning against bad practice in account management, for instance preventing users from deleting accounts, e.g. against Amazon and eBay  Ranking countries for their privacy protection and surveillance levels,  Building particularly from our work on companies’ practices on customer account management and our expertise developed in the country rankings we are now positioned to develop rankings for companies.
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