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Gmail Android App Bug Lets You Send Emails Pretending To Be Someone Else
A bug in the Gmail app for Android allows anyone to spoof their email address, and could open the door for phishing attacks.
Email Encryption Is Broken
"These attacks are both readily found in the wild and pose a real threat to users."
The Iranian Hacking Campaign to Break into Activists' Gmail Accounts
The hackers devised clever ways to circumvent Gmail’s two factor authentication protections.
The Messages We Wish We Could Un-Send
"I once sent my girlfriend-at-the-time a text that said 'I'm going to make your vagina cry.' By mistake, I sent it to my mom."
Why China Is Trying to Kill Gmail
The country has been trying to control Google within its borders for 14 years.
The Wonder of Undo Send
There are few pieces of technology as beautiful and essential and wonderful as the "undo send" button.
Canadians Should Be Concerned about the NSA and PRISM
Now that the world knows about PRISM, the ramifications for Canadians are concerning given that the internet, in its current iteration, is essentially American owned. Everything you store on Facebook and Gmail, for example, is stored in America.
It's Impossible to Keep a Secret These Days
Let's have a little talk about secrets. There are all kinds of secrets out there in the world: personal secrets, state secrets, secret recipes, secret sauces, top secrets, secret levels in video games, Victoria's Secret. The list goes on. But as we're...
To Visit the Internet You Must Leave the Internet: An Interview with "Tubes" Author Andrew Blum
It’s nice to think that Andrew Blum chose "_Tubes_":http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994936 as the title for his book for pure fun, because, really, how absurd was it that Senator Ted Stevens once used this word to explain...
Ones and Zeros: A Brand New Way of Killing Cancer / Bad Riot Spokespeople
h3. ONE: New leukemia "treatment exceeds 'wildest expectations'":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/10/eveningnews/main20090911.shtml (CBS) h3. ZERO: London girl rioters bragging about their conquests and "'showing the rich we do what we want...