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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- December 5, 2013

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Headline Scan
How to Encrypt Your Email
India Asks US for Tips on Snooping
Here's Looking at Me, iPhone
Terminator Ends the Terminal Window Blahs
Delivery Drones Could Be Skyjackers' Heaven
The Healing Begins for Healthcare.gov
Dual-Screen YotaPhone Goes Back to the Future

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Today's Story Highlights

How to Encrypt Your Email
Some years ago, an antinuclear activist named Phil Zimmermann created a
data encryption program for computers. He designed a key-generation and
encryption-and-decryption system called "PGP," or Pretty Good Privacy,
for the bulletin board systems that were the precursors to forums, email
and the Web. This algorithmic scrambling of information has played an
important part in the growth of the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79559.html

India Asks US for Tips on Snooping
India's home ministry reportedly will seek advice from the U.S. to help
decrypt communications taking place on platforms like Skype, BlackBerry
and WeChat. Sharing such spying techniques is a potential "area of
cooperation," according to Indian law enforcement. India has already
launched an elaborate system that allows tax officials and security
authorities to intercept phone calls and emails.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79566.html

Here's Looking at Me, iPhone
USPTO just granted Apple a patent for a facial recognition feature that
could unlock a mobile device as well as control how it works. That's
right, Apple just got a patent so our iPhones can look at us all the
time. I just got used to the idea of using my fingerprint to unlock an
iPhone 5s, but now my face? I'm vaguely uneasy about the potential for
dark uses this sort of technology opens up.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79565.html

Terminator Ends the Terminal Window Blahs
Terminator is not for casual Linux users who rarely stray from the menu-
driven applications. If you ever venture into what some regard as the
dark side of the Linux OS, however, Terminator can end your discomfort
by using a single-session terminal window. Terminator is a powerful and
useful terminal emulator built with many features not included in
standard terminal applications.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79552.html

Delivery Drones Could Be Skyjackers' Heaven
Following news that Amazon plans to use unmanned drones for rapid
delivery of goods to customers, security researcher Samy Kamkar has
developed a way to skyjack drones. The hack may resonate with many
Americans, who are concerned about the increasing use of drones by law
enforcement to conduct surveillance on citizens within the United
States' borders.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79564.html

The Healing Begins for Healthcare.gov
The troubled Healthcare.gov website seems to have found its sea legs at
last. After a botched rollout, the White House set itself a new deadline
of Nov. 30 and hunkered down to repair the many glitches afflicting the
site, through which Americans in the 36 states it serves must get their
health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. By and large, it appears
to have succeeded.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79561.html

Dual-Screen YotaPhone Goes Back to the Future
Yota Devices, based in Russia, aims to shake up the smartphone market
with the entry of its YotaPhone. The smartphone, which goes on sale
Wednesday, first emerged in Dec. 2012. It was featured at the Consumer
Electronics Show earlier this year, and its intriguing form factor
earned it several Best of CES awards. Now, the YotaPhone is hitting the
market.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79554.html

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