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Mark Zuckerberg Uses a Very Low-Tech Solution to Thwart Spies

2016-06-22 22:02:40| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Paranoid or smart? The multibillionaire apparently tapes up his laptop webcam to avoid being spied on.

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Mark Zuckerberg Uses a Very Low-Tech Solution to Thwart Spies

2016-06-22 20:03:09| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

Paranoid or smart? The multibillionaire apparently tapes up his laptop webcam to avoid being spied on.

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The Wall Street Journal: Apple Pay stung by low-tech fraudsters

2015-03-06 04:29:55| Grocery - Topix.net

Those Apple products have a higher resale value than most of those available through other merchants that have signed on to the Apple Pay system, such as Whole Foods Market Inc. The Apple Pay system itself hasn't been penetrated by hackers. Rather, fraudsters are entering stolen card data into phones, which can then be used to make purchases without a physical card being present.

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North Korea caught spying on South Korea with low-tech GoPro drones

2014-04-02 16:46:21| Extremetech

You know how the USA has Predator and Global Hawk (pictured above) drones capable of surveilling and killing almost anyone, anywhere in the world? Well, stick this in your pipe and smoke it, Uncle Sam: North Korea had at least two unmanned drones that were probably capable of flying at around a dozen knots, and were probably equipped with "high-resolution" GoPro cameras. I say "had" because they crashed while trying to surveil South Korean military installations.

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