This was the tweet from the Associated Press on April 23: “Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” Of course, it wasn’t true. The AP had been hacked. But the stock market temporarily lost more than 100 points on the news, and the tweet briefly rattled some already jittery nerves around the… Read More…
A Seattle startup called Cloak has launched a new service that promises to easily protect Macs and iOS devices from snooping on unsecured wireless networks. Founded by three Microsoft veterans, the company had previously been offering the Cloak service as a public beta, but it’s now a bona fide Version 1.0, with a new level… Read More…
Radio Frequency Identification, better known as RFID, is used in everything from livestock to shipping containers. But what about humans? This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk with Amal Graafstra, who has had the distinction of walking around for years with an RFID tag implanted in each of his hands. And… Read More…
One of our more interesting finds at last night’s gdgt live Seattle event was a service called ‘Cloak’ that protects Mac, iPhone and iPad users from having their data intercepted when using unsecure web sites over public WiFi networks such as those in many coffee shops. It’s developed by a Seattle startup founded by a… Read More…
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