Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is working to create a user friendly encrypted email service that will be difficult, if not impossible, to intercept and read even for the NSA. According to Fastcoexist: ”Last week, we learned that Levison has teamed up with Mike Janke of Silent Circle, another secure messaging service that also shut down…
Japanese University Offers Free Access to Dozens of VPNs
From the Great Firewall of China to the UK ban on the Pirate Bay, nearly every country now faces some form of internet censorship. Apparently no one need worry about it anymore: The Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan, has just launched a free VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which will allow users to…
Japanese University Offers Free Access to Dozens of VPNs
From the Great Firewall of China to the UK ban on the Pirate Bay, nearly every country now faces some form of internet censorship. Apparently no one need worry about it anymore: The Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan, has just launched a free VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which will allow users to…
Is Facebook Secretly Working for Google +
Google+ didn’t really take off as rapidly as Google had hoped. Google+ is good, but generally it doesn’t do much that other social networks don’t already do. Recently, Google has begun to force the issue. They’ve started automatically setting up Google+ accounts for anyone who uses other Google Services, such as GMail and YouTube. At…
Is Facebook Secretly Working for Google +
Google+ didn’t really take off as rapidly as Google had hoped. Google+ is good, but generally it doesn’t do much that other social networks don’t already do. Recently, Google has begun to force the issue. They’ve started automatically setting up Google+ accounts for anyone who uses other Google Services, such as GMail and YouTube. At…
Good News, Looks Like You Don’t Need a Key To Get Into Your Hotel Room Anymore
According to a variety of outlets including Boing Boing and Forbes, as many as 4 million hotel room electronic locks can be opened without a key. According to Forbes, security researcher and Mozilla developer Cody Brocious was able to open many, but not all, of the doors tested using a simple, highly portable piece of…
Good News, Looks Like You Don’t Need a Key To Get Into Your Hotel Room Anymore
According to a variety of outlets including Boing Boing and Forbes, as many as 4 million hotel room electronic locks can be opened without a key. According to Forbes, security researcher and Mozilla developer Cody Brocious was able to open many, but not all, of the doors tested using a simple, highly portable piece of…