hacking
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What Is Private and What Isn’t When You Use Incognito Mode?
The incognito or private mode found in most web browsers is back in the news, with Google updating its disclaimer to give users a better idea of exactly how this feature works. Whether you use Chrome or one of the alternatives, the feature works in the same way—and it doesn’t cover your tracks quite as…
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The Legal Case Against the Journalist Who Exposed Kanye West’s Weird Fox News Interview
An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach. In May, former Deadspin editor Timothy Burke had his home raided by the FBI. Burke says federal agents seized “phones, computers, hard drives, notebooks, and his entire digital newsroom,” as well as…
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Prince Harry Says His Bro William Got a ‘Very Large’ Settlement in Phone Hacking Case
It’s hard to make the activities of Fox News and its Dominion Voting fiasco seem tame by comparison but another one of Rupert Murdoch’s media companies appears to have done it. How about a news operation that gets its scoops by hacking members of the royal family?
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Man Behind Hack-for-Hire Campaign That Targeted Environmental Activists Is Keeping His Mouth Shut
The key figure in a hacker-for-hire scheme that targeted U.S. environmental activists and others is due to receive his prison sentence soon but, despite facing a potentially lengthy stint behind bars, he still won’t name the co-conspirators who hired him.