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Posted on December 4, 2014

Shhh… Russian Police to Award $37,000 for Gadgets That Could Hack iPhones

Now is that a better chance of winning than Russian roulette?

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  • Shhh… The Chinese Version of All the President's Men
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  • Shhh… Google: No to Global ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Order
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  • Shhh… 10 Secret Facts about the CIA
  • Shhh… Spies Vs Silicon Valley
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  • Shhh… The Snowden Official Teaser Trailer
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  • Shhh… Impact Team: Cheating Spouses Panic As Adultery Site Ashley Madison Hacked
  • Shhh… Hacked By Your Cyber-security Firm?
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  • Shhh… Minds.com: A Social Media Network to Stop NSA Surveillance?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: TISA Corporate Takeover Plot
  • Shhh… SPIEGEL: US Attack on Press Freedom
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: NSA Has Spied on German Chancellors for Decades
  • Shhh… US Government Hacks at OPM Exposed More Than 21Million People
  • Shhh… FBI, DEA & US Army Bought Italian Spyware
  • Shhh… Hacking Team: When Hackers Get Hacked
  • Shhh… Russian Parliament Paved Way for "Right to be Forgotten"
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: NSA’s Been Bugging Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets
  • Shhh… XKEYSCORE – The NSA Insight Into Everything We Do Online
  • Shhh… China Passes New National Security Law
  • Shhh… What Message is the US Sending to France with Bulk Data Collection to Resume Following WikiLeaks' Espionnage Élysée Expose?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: US Also Had a Decade-long Policy of Economic Espionage Against French Companies
  • Shhh… US Data Hack May Be 4 Times Larger Than the Government Has Admitted
  • Shhh… French Asylum Offer to Snowden & Assange as Ultimate US Contempt
  • Shhh… French Former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas: Shocked But Not Surprised With NSA Eavesdrops on French Presidents
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' "Espionnage Élysée" – François Hollande on Emergency Meeting Following Claims US Spied on 3 French Presidents
  • Shhh… Google Chrome Secretly Downloading Audio Listeners & Eavesdropping on Users Without Consent
  • Shhh… China Changing Course on Foreign Policy?
  • Shhh… Italian Prosecutors Seek to Indict 297 People in Bank of China (Milan) Fraud
  • Shhh… Top 10 Sites Hidden by Google Earth
  • Shhh… Snowden Supports Apple’s Public Stance On Privacy
  • Shhh… French Ultimatum Clicking on Google Over "Right to be Forgotten" Ruling
  • Shhh… 2 Years Post-Snowden Review
  • Shhh… Conspiracy Theories on Latest Snowden Claims?
  • Shhh… From NSA to Police Surveillance
  • Shhh… Hackers Target Database of Chinese with Ties to US Government
  • Shhh… William Binney: Everyone Under Surveillance
  • Shhh… 10 Ways the NSA Spies On US
  • Shhh… Latest Cyberattacks on US Government a Hoax – To Restore NSA Surveillance?
  • Shhh… Snowden Documents: NSA Secretly Expands Cybersurveillance
  • Shhh… FBI Operate Surveillance Planes – With Fictitious Names and Video & Cellphone Technologies
  • Shhh… Live Q&A with Snowden
  • Shhh… US Senate Approves Bill to Reshape NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… What About Snowden Now with NSA Surveillance on Hold?
  • Shhh… NSA Surveillance on Hold as Senate Blocks Temporary Extensions
  • Shhh… Everything Google – Key Announcements at the Google 2015 I/O Developer Conference
  • Shhh… Fancy Revenge by Stalking Your Identity Thief?
  • Shhh… William Binney on NSA's "Dark Secrets"
  • Shhh… The Internet of Things – Google's New Patent for a Creepy Wi-fi Connected Toy
  • Shhh… USA Freedom Act Fails Again – Senators Reject Bill to Scrap NSA Bulk Collection
  • Shhh… Rand Paul's 10-Hour Filibuster to Derail the Winding Down of NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… Fraudulent Practices at Fake Cancer Charities
  • Shhh… US Charges 6 Chinese Nationals for Industrial Espionage
  • Shhh… Bruce Schneier on How We Sold Our Souls & Privacy to Internet Giants
  • Shhh… Brett King on FinTech & the Death of the Retail Banking Branches
  • Shhh… US Congress on Track to End NSA's Bulk Phone Collection Program?
  • Shhh… Jack Barsky – The Spy Among US
  • Shhh… Former CIA Officer Sentenced for Leaks to NYT Reporter
  • Shhh… Spy Game: The Thais, the Israelis & the Wiretapping Devices
  • Shhh… NSA Rats Exposed – The "Facebook-NSA Queen" & Mysterious Death of Dave Goldberg
  • Shhh… Court Rules NSA's Phone Data Collection Illegal
  • Shhh… NSA Have More Data Than They Can Handle
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  • Shhh… Profile: Michael G. Vickers, the Retiring Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
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  • Shhh… NSA Too Late With "Snowden-Proof" Cloud Storage
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  • Shhh… The Protecting Cyber Networks Act Gets Greenlight from Congress
  • Shhh… The Perils of Popular News Sites
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  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' Latest Stunt: The Sony Archives
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  • Shhh… Why You Should Forget Facebook for Good?
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  • Shhh… The Why's, How's and What's of Hacks into Health Insurance Companies Like Anthem and Premera
  • Shhh… The USB-C Makes those new MacBooks More Vulnerable
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  • Shhh… Anatomy of a Hack – What Should You Do After You're Hacked?
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  • How to Cope With File-Encrypting Ransomware Risks (After US Offer $3mn Award for GameOver Zeus creator Evgeniy Bogachev)?
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  • Shhh… Spy Alert: Your Smart TV Watches You – Just Like Your Computer
  • Edward Snowden & Hervé Falciani Knew Each Other Before Their Respective Exposé?
  • The Flawed "Right To Be Forgotten" Ruling on Google Cannot and Should Not be Globalized
  • Shhh… Martin Jacques on Understanding the Rise of China
  • Shhh… US in Long Battle As China Request Source Code From Western Technology Companies
  • US-China Spat on Intrusive Rules – And Actual Intrusions
  • From Apple With Love – Granting Chinese Security Audits Leaves More Deep & Profound Implications Than Betrayal of Apple Die-Hards
  • Shhh… Why (Obama & Cameron) the NSA is Breaking Our Encryption and Why We Should Care
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  • Shhh… How to Register for Kim Dotcom's End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calling Service "MegaChat"
  • Shhh… China's Block to VPN Services Has Global Impacts
  • Shhh… Snowden: iPhone has Secret Surveillance Spyware that Can Be Remotely Controlled
  • Obama: Why is Your Blackberry Super-Encrypted & You Want to Ban the World from Using Encryption?
  • Shhh… Blackberry to Cameron & Obama: Encryption Ban a Gift to Hackers & Cyber-Criminals
  • Shhh… Obama to Support Cameron on Encryption Ban – Knowingly Betray Our Privacy and Security
  • Shhh… Mark Cuban on Social Media Mistakes and Self-Destruct Messaging Apps Cyber Dust
  • Shhh… List of 3,500 Spy Names sold by German Double Agent
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  • Shhh… CENTCOM Hack More Than Just Twitter Feed & YouTube Channel
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  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: FBI to Photograph All Americans
  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: Encoding Your Photos with Photoscrambler
  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: How Much Is Your Face Worth?
  • Shhh… Get a New Home Router – 12 Millions Vulnerable to "Misfortune Cookie" Hacks
  • New US Sanctions on North Korea – Comparing Sony & the World’s Biggest Data Breaches
  • The Rafael Hui Case Amplifies Flaws in Hong Kong's Background Checks & Vetting System
  • Shhh… The WikiLeaks' CIA Travel Guide
  • Shhh… A Feasible Strategy Despite Severe Innate Phone Security (Eavesdropping) Flaws Like SS7
  • Are You Unique – How to Check Your Browser Fingerprints & Online Privacy?
  • Shhh… US Federal Court: Warrantless Surveillance Footage in Public Areas is an Invasion of Privacy
  • Shhh… The FBI Unmasking of TOR Users with Metasploit
  • One Question on the Sydney Siege: Why didn't the Snipers Shoot Earlier?
  • Shhh… Dick Cheney on "Full of Crap" Torture Report
  • Shhh… John Brennan on the Torture Report
  • Shhh… Michael Hayden on the Senate’s CIA Interrogation Report
  • The US Senate Intelligence Committee & CIA Interrogation Report – A Closer Look at the Tortures at Guantanamo Bay
  • Life-Saving Gadgets like Bulletproof Bags and Shields for Schools & the Workplace
  • Shhh… New Surveillance Gadget – GPS Shoes for Kids
  • Shhh… 10 Surveillance Technologies to Watch
  • Shhh… Russian Police to Award $37,000 for Gadgets That Could Hack iPhones
  • Shhh… DOJ Uses 18th Century Law to Make Apple Unlock Encrypted iPhones
  • Shhh… USB Thumb Drives Everywhere
  • Shhh… Glenn Greenwald with James Risen on "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War"
  • Shhh… How to Prevent Someone from Knowing When You've Seen Apps Messages
  • Shhh… Views on the "Don't Spy On US" Campaign
  • Shhh… The West Wing on Privacy Issues Today – Back in 1999
  • Shhh… How to Contact US Senators Who Block NSA Surveillance Bill & Disregard Our Privacy
  • Shhh… Assange to Appeal Swedish Court Decision After Ecuador Guarantees Indefinite Asylum
  • Shhh… Lawsuit After Proof of British Police Spying on Reporters for Years
  • Shhh… Putin Put Russian Spies on the Spree
  • Shhh… The Puppet Master Putin & Russia’s Escalating Spy Operations
  • Shhh… US Senate Vote Falls Short of Curbing NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… We Can Now Hear & See Wi-fi?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' Cousin AfriLeaks – A New Anonymous Whistleblowing & Open Data Platform for Africa
  • Shhh… Rethinking Snowden – A "Limited Hangout" CIA Operation?
  • Shhh… A Personal Gadget to Block Wireless Surveillance Devices Like Drones & Google Glass
  • Shhh… "Quiet Zone" for the perfect holiday?
  • Shhh… Hotel Cyber Blues

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