Should Snowden Be Punished or Pardoned?; FBI Seized Tor Mail's Entire Email Database

Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages?  |  FileZilla Evil Twin Steals FTP Logins To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Should Snowden Be Punished or Pardoned? Most Epic EVE Online Battle Does $200K in Damage FBI Seized Tor Mail's Entire Email Database Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? FileZilla Evil Twin Steals FTP Logins Hot Comment: "These idiots probably designed those flyers on a Mac using Microsoft Office, and..." From the Vault: Bill Gates: Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Kids Watch It: $499 3-D Printer a Hit at CES Poll Booth: How loud is your primary computer? Sponsored Resource: How Modern Custom Applications can Spur Business Growth Should Snowden Be Punished or Pardoned? U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has made whistleblower Edward Snowden a very peculiar offer: plead guilty, and the U.S. government would consider how to handle his criminal case. If Snowden ever risked coming back to the U.S., and you were Holder and Obama, what sort of deal would you try to strike? Sound Off>> Most Epic EVE Online Battle Does $200K in Damage This week was witness to the biggest battle on space MMO EVE Online in its 10-year history. It involved over 2,200 players in a single star system and over 70 of the game's biggest and most expensive ships, the Titans, were destroyed. Losses for the Titans alone for this massive battle are estimated at $200,000 - $300,000. Sound Off>> FBI Seized Tor Mail's Entire Email Database When Tor Mail operator Freedom Hosting was shut down by the FBI last August, the Tor Mail servers suddenly began hosting FBI malware that attempted to de-anonymize users. Now, Wired reports on a new court filing that indicates that the FBI was also able to grab Tor Mail's entire email database. Sound Off>> Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? The latest update to Facebook's Android app asks for some rather odd permissions. Some users in the UK noticed that the social media site wants permission to read your text messages. Some suspect that Facebook wants access to the data so it can serve you more targeted ads, which the company denies. Sound Off>> FileZilla Evil Twin Steals FTP Logins Maliciously modified versions of the popular FTP application FileZilla look and act just like the real thing, but include extra code that steals the login data typed in by users and sends it to an unauthorized server using the same FTP operation launched by the user without going through a firewall that might spot what it's doing. Sound Off>> Re: Protesting against themselves? "These idiots probably designed those flyers on a Mac using Microsoft Office, and used Google to find all the facts and allegations in their flyers." --by darkmeridian Read More>>   Bill Gates: Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Kids Three years ago, Bill Gates had harsh words for those who engage in anti-vaccine efforts, especially Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who falsified data to "prove" a fraudulent link between vaccines and autism. "It's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids," Gates said. Read More>> $499 3-D Printer a Hit at CES 3-D printing is far from new, but a $499 3-D printer at CES sparked headines including "CES 2014: Could 3D printing change the world?" Timothy Lord got to see the lower-cost machine in action and talk to XYZprinting's Gary Shu about the device's features and when it will be available.  Watch the Video>>    How loud is your primary computer? It's silent It's only audible under load It's a constant, minimal buzz It's mostly quiet, occasionally noisier It's not quiet, but not loud enough to annoy It's louder than I prefer It's far too loud It's a 4.3 on the Richter scale Cast Your Vote>>   How Modern Custom Applications can Spur Business Growth This white paper outlines four key challenges to business growth, and explains how modern custom applications built with the ServiceNow Service Automation Platform can help to address these challenges effectively. Learn More>>  Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.