Data and Tricks of the Eye

Below is an animated gif showing homicide data partitioned by zip code that has been put into a network graph rather than the more traditional map projection (to get the animation, you may have to pull...

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Fun Fact Coming From the Google China Story

Why only subject lines? If the attackers could get access to subject lines, why couldn't they access entire e-mails? Apparently because the hackers infiltrated automated systems set up to provide such...

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DHS Cyber-Security Chief Resigns in Protest

The official in charge of coordinating the US government’s cyber-security operations has quit, saying the expanding control of the National Security Agency over the nation’s computer security efforts...

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Privacy of 3.5 Billion Cellphone Users Compromised – GSM Code is Broken | ProgrammerFish

  It should have been obsolete by now. It has lived it’s life. In an era where an average life of a technology is not more then 5 years, GSM survived a whole 21 years! This in itself is an achievement...

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