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Prompted by the latest Kali update (the rolling Sana), I looked through all my USB stick and decided to update them all. One such stick has Tails, the privacy and anonymity minded OS on a stick with Tor and i2P, used by privacy advocates all over the world (including Edward Snowden).

We just learned about a very serious security flaw in the Passport Canada website accepting online applications .

I was recently reading on /. about a new NSA faux pas ( Slashdot New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor ). I can only wonder why is anyone surprised?!

Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash presents further proof that blindly investing in technology just because it's new, while raising the bar for forgeries, it actually creates far more possibilities for fraud. Furthermore, the more sophisticated and complex a system becomes, the less likely it is that tampering can be found. Try expalining that to a Microdrone flying, noisy-paranoid government bureaucrat .