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	<description>Motley cabal of online hacker and librarians.</description>
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		<title>With Wi-Fi Aboard, Be Careful What You Click</title>
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I’M a Modernist, devoted to Mies, postwar abstraction and flying. In the last year or so, I’ve been in Amman, Paris, Venice, Athens, Boston, London, Naples, Dublin, Rome, Reykjavik, Milan, Málaga, Moscow, Montreal and Memphis, to name a few.
One year, I was traveling back and forth to Paris so many times that the flight attendants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/09/07/with-wi-fi-aboard-be-careful-what-you-click/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Ping Dinged by Spam</title>
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Apple&#8217;s new social media service, Ping, is already getting hit by a barrage of comment spam.
The Ping network integrates with iTunes 10 to let you follow your favorite artists and swap comments with other fans. But it took less than 24 hours for the comments sections to be swamped by phony offers for free iPhones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/09/06/apples-ping-dinged-by-spam/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Adds New Remote log-out Security Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook on Thursday announced a new security feature that will allow users to see if they are logged into their accounts on a different computer and to remotely log out if so.
This will address the problem that many of us have of leaving a computer&#8211;either one we borrowed at a friend&#8217;s house or used at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/09/03/facebook-adds-new-remote-log-out-security-feature/</link>
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		<title>Gmail, Skype now in India&#8217;s Crosshairs</title>
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After temporarily setting aside its BlackBerry ultimatum, the Indian government has shifted its focus to Gmail and Skype, according to the AFP.
India is apparently taking issue with any communication service that doesn&#8217;t give it easy access to data. It has a problem with Google-owned Gmail&#8217;s heavy encryption and with the inability to listen in on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/09/02/gmail-skype-now-in-indias-crosshairs/</link>
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		<title>Cars: The Next Hacking Frontier?</title>
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That nice, new computerized car you just bought could be hackable. 
Of course, your car is probably not a high-priority target for most malicious hackers. But security experts tell CNET that car hacking is starting to move from the realm of the theoretical to reality, thanks to new wireless technologies and evermore dependence on computers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/09/01/cars-the-next-hacking-frontier/</link>
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		<title>RIM Sidesteps BlackBerry ban in India</title>
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The Indian government said it will not shut down the service for at least another 60 days as it evaluates proposals RIM has offered that would allow the government to monitor wireless subscribers&#8217; communications.
Indian officials said earlier this month that the company had until the end of August to come up with a solution that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/08/31/rim-sidesteps-blackberry-ban-in-india/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;LOL is this you?&#8217; spam spreading via Facebook chat</title>
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Facebook on Friday afternoon was investigating what appeared to be a new spam scheme that results in users getting messages from friends over Facebook chat that have malicious links.
The messages say &#8220;LOL is this you?&#8221; and are accompanied by a link that looks like it leads to a video on Facebook, one victim told CNET. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/08/30/lol-is-this-you-spam-spreading-via-facebook-chat/</link>
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		<title>RIM Extends Olive Branch to Indian Government</title>
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Research In Motion is hoping to find a solution to its drawn-out security battle with India by creating an industry forum to address the government&#8217;s concerns.
RIM says it wants to create a forum where the company and other mobile firms could work with the Indian government to support &#8220;the lawful access needs of law enforcement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/08/27/rim-extends-olive-branch-to-indian-government/</link>
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		<title>Be Cautious of Internet Access at Airports</title>
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Accessing the Internet via an open Wi-Fi network is risky because you have no idea who is the hot spot provider or who is connected to it. At the airport it may seem more secure to use a terminal to check your e-mail or update your Facebook status; however, according to Symantec, these terminals might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/08/26/be-cautious-of-internet-access-at-airports/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Freemium&#8217; antivirus firm Avast gets funding boost</title>
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The security vendor Avast has received a $100m investment from private equity firm Summit Partners, in exchange for a minority stake in the company.
Avast chief executive Vince Steckler described the $100m (£64m) deal on Monday as &#8220;a vote of confidence in our disruptive &#8216;freemium&#8217; business model&#8221;, which sees the vendor giving its product — including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://usrlib.info/2010/08/25/freemium-antivirus-firm-avast-gets-funding-boost/</link>
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