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3rd October Comments

Canadian discovers Chinese snoop on Skype

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 am

A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.’s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including “democracy.”
The revelation is not only of interest to rights groups that monitor Internet censorship. The discovery also likely intrigues law enforcement and intelligence agencies in other countries, because they have been [...]

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1st October Comments

Simply Mepis 8 is Looking Good

Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 5:58 am

 
As some of you know, Linux is what my computers run on, and Simply Mepis is the particular distribution. I have been using Simply Mepis for a number of years, and would not go backwards into a Windows environment for anything. There is no need to, really, as all my computing needs are met in [...]

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