Unsafe at Any Broadband Speed?

A U.S. computer security agency says Internet Explorer is so vulnerable to attack, users should consider other browsers

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21 July 2004--It was an extraordinary moment in computer network security. On 2 July, following three weeks of warnings about the security of the most popular Web browser in the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team released a "vulnerability note" that said, in part, "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to [Internet Explorer's] security model�.It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different [Web] browser."

Web discussion boards lit up, and e-mail lists buzzed with the news. "Did CERT say ’don't use IE'?" was a typical subject line.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

Forensic technology is powerful, but is it worth the privacy trade-offs?

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Gabriel Zimmer
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The group of well-dressed young men who gathered on the outskirts of Baltimore on the night of 5 January 2021 hardly looked like extremists. But the next day, prosecutors allege, they would all breach the United States Capitol during the deadly insurrection. Several would loot and destroy media equipment, and one would assault a policeman.

No strangers to protest, the men, members of the America First movement, diligently donned masks to obscure their faces. None boasted of their exploits on social media, and none of their friends or family would come forward to denounce them. But on 5 January, they made one piping hot, family-size mistake: They shared a pizza.

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