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The Russian Government offers ~4 million ruble (~$111,000) to the one who decrypts data sent over Tor , an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors, and others. MVD (Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs) issued an notice on July 11, named “ Perform research, code ‘TOR’ (Navy) ”, an open call for Tor-cracking proposals whose winner will be chosen by August 20. Anonymity, which is of everybody’s interest, specially of activists, journalists, researchers, whistleblowers, who uses Tor anonymity service to hide their activities, are now under great threat from both sides. Source: thehackernews

While organisations like the MPAA and RIAA get a lot of press for lobbying governments into taking down music and movie related file sharing sites, the US authorities have been targeting a new kind of piracy as well – app piracy. In a single swipe, the US government has taken down three websites involved with the distribution of copyright protected applications. These include: applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com. Visiting those pages now gives you the simple message below: This wasn’t just some local scuffle however. Most of the servers operating these websites were found to be overseas, so it ended up taking internaional cooperation to take them offline. Assistant attorney general Lanny Breur came forward to comment (via Wired ): “Software apps have become an increasingly essential part of our nation’s economy and creative culture, and the Criminal Division is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to protect the creators of these apps...

The iPhone cracks itself if siri perceives it as stolen. Before you go why siri why, self destruction is activated only if you have enabled the iphone unlock error security feature on the concept iPhone 5. After 3 strikes, Siri radio quickly does an iPhone data transfer to your iTunes; and goes onto decimate all your information on the phone. You are notified on iTunes, where the iPhone data recovery is now available only to you, as it should be. If you cant have the iphone, NO one can! The question is not whether iPhone -- Will it blend? but iPhone -- Will it destruct?, if stolen. Go Siri! @InformationWeek