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Don’t Want to Be Spied On? Think About Encryption
By Fahmida Y. Rashid The twin disclosures last week about the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance program accomplished something that no amount of SecurityWatch posts could ever have accomplished: It got regular Internet users talking about encryption. Right after the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryptography, Encryption, National Security Agency, NSA, PRISM, privacy, security, Verizon, Washington Post
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How Bad 3rd Grade Math Legitimizes Injustice
By Imara Jones The fight for economic justice passed a grim milestone this week. On June 1 sequestration—the automatic spending cuts passed by Congress and implemented by the president—marked a second month of pain for tens of millions, with no … Continue reading
Minority unemployment gap is still widening
By Michelle Singletary Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the employment gap between young minorities and young whites continues to grow, reports Edward Wyckoff Williams, a contributing editor of The Root. In 2011, 42.6 … Continue reading
Single motherhood in U.S. increases sharply
By Carol Morello More than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried, the Census Bureau said Wednesday in a report that shows sharp discrepancies in single mothers related to income, education and race. … Continue reading
BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in five years
By Hayley Tsukayama Forget the death of the PC: BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins thinks tablets are on their way out as users shift to doing more through their smartphones. In comments Monday at a Milken Institute conference, Heins said smartphones … Continue reading
Time Warner Cable CEO wants to slim cable bundles, eyes Aereo’s technology
By Cecilia Kang Time Warner Cable’s chief executive said his company may consider capturing television content from public airwaves and delivering them to customers over an Internet connection, a practice that has shaken the entertainment industry. The idea was pioneered by … Continue reading
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Tagged Aereo, Cable television, CBS, Glenn Britt, Les Moonves, NBC, technology, television, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Univision, Washington Post
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Boston suspect says bombings were initially planned for 4th of July
By Sari Horwitz The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings told the FBI that he and his brother initially considered committing suicide bombings and also planned attacking on the Fourth of July at Boston’s large celebration along the Charles … Continue reading
Five myths about the minimum wage
By Betsey Stevenson In February’s State of the Union address, President Obama provoked conservatives’ ire by proposing an increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9. Especially in a struggling economy, wouldn’t a minimum-wage boost increase unemployment … Continue reading
Five myths about the debt ceiling
Excellent primer on the debt ceiling issue that will gain steam in the news as we approach August 2. Five myths about the debt ceiling – The Washington Post.
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Tagged business, congress, Democrat, economy, politics, republican, Treasury Department, United States, Washington Post
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