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Thirty percent of teens and young adults have had their email, Facebook, or other online accounts hacked into or spied on. But many think of the practice as harmless. More »
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As part of Cyber Security Awareness month (duh), the NSA has created the CryptoKids cartoon characters—they love computer surveillance and working with secret codes! But hey, at least there's a girl engineer. More »
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British spies during WWI apparently discovered that semen makes great invisible ink. Spy chief Mansfield Cumming (yes) was "delighted" by the discovery, but the spy who discovered the spooge-ink had to leave "after becoming the butt of jokes." More »
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We're not sure what's weirder — that sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman is putting inspiring quotes on her Facebook page while being debriefed by the Russian government, or that so many people are watching. More »
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When alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman's Facebook photos broke, she went from threat to national security to sexy "bombshell." If she plays her cards right, she can ride her "femme fatale" image right to the bank. More »
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When spies seduce you to learn your secrets, it's called a "honey trap", and history's rife with examples. My favorite: "Romeo spies" assigned to "seek out powerful, unmarried women, romance them, and squeeze from them all their secrets." [FP] More »
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As surveillance technology becomes more affordable and readily available, it's increasingly easy for the stalker-on-the-street to monitor your every movement with his own spy kit! More »
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Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were tried, convicted and, in 1953, executed for espionage. Historians have argued about it ever since. With the recent release of grand jury transcripts and a new admission from one of the other people convicted with them, the evidence used to convict Ethel seems to be, at best, tainted (though Julius looks as guilty as the government said he was). Ethel was convicted based on a late admission by her brother that she had transcribed his notes for him, an admission contradicted by her sister-in-law's grand jury testimony. Prosecutors admit that they hoped that by threatening to sentence Ethel to death, they had hoped to convince Julius to implicate other spies. But whatever information Julius might have had, he took to his grave and prosecutors never relented on Ethel's sentence. Sobell says now, "She knew what he was doing, but what was she guilty of? Of being Julius’s wife." [New York Times] More »
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If you've never hung out with the IT professionals in your office, then this may come as news to you: They're pretty much all reading your shit. You probably even signed away your right to complain about in on your first day in the stack of papers they had you sign as part of the hiring process. I worked at a job where the HR director read every single e-mail sent to or from every single person in the office (and I was asked to resign when an acquaintance asked for my résumé to pass around); I worked at another where they randomly screencapped your screen just to check on you. Do yourself a favor: Always be nice to your tech people. They know where the bodies are buried and if you get them drunk, sometimes they'll tell you. [ABC News] More »
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