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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- December 24, 2014

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Flaws in Ancient Standard Enable Wireless Eavesdropping, Spying
Gadgets: Budget Fitness Tracking, Focused Writing and Red-Hot Wearables
The Curious Case of the Disappearing Distros

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Today's Story Highlights

Flaws in Ancient Standard Enable Wireless Eavesdropping, Spying
Vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7, telephony signaling protocols
used by carriers worldwide, allow third parties to listen to people's
cellphone calls and intercept text messages despite encryption, The
Washington Post reported last week. German cybersecurity researchers
Tobias Engel of Sternraute and Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs
separately discovered these vulnerabilities.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81520.html

Gadgets: Budget Fitness Tracking, Focused Writing and Red-Hot Wearables
Gather around, friends, for another edition of the column that holds up
just-announced gadgets to scrutiny, Gadget Dreams and Nightmares. In the
stocking for our pre-holidays edition are a smartphone-controlled lock,
an inexpensive fitness tracker, a red-hot wearable and much more. While
I've looked before at smartphone-enabled door locks, Sony's take on the
idea, the Qrio, stands out.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81516.html

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Distros
Well the holidays are pretty much upon us at last here in the Linux
blogosphere, and there's nowhere left to hide. The next two weeks or so
promise little more than a blur of forced social occasions and too-large
meals, punctuated only by occasional respite down at the Broken Windows
Lounge. Perhaps that's why Linux bloggers seized with such glee upon a
good old-fashioned mystery.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81518.html

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