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US athletes told to use burner phones at Beijing Winter Olympics

The Verge

In 2019, China was caught secretly installing spyware on tourists’ phones who entered from the Xinjiang region. As noted by the WSJ , Great Britain, Canada, and the Netherlands have also cautioned athletes against bringing their personal electronics into the country. The Committee’s fears aren’t unfounded.

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Windows Power User Tools : spf13.com

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All are free and clean of any ads or spyware. Windows XP, Server 2003,Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7. ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine. ve compiled a set of programs that I have found to be invaluable in using Windows for serious development and computing. EaseUS® Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified."

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A team consisting of University faculty members in multiple disciplines and students of all levels has been developing this new imaging technology since 2008, said Prabhas Moghe, a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical … Read more on RU Daily Targum. Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec.

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Help! I have a Virus!

Sean Daniel

Spyware is software that tends to steal from you, capture credit card information, your password etc, also bad, and again Windows Defender will capture most of these, but not all Bloatware is software that that is trying to help you do something, but something you probably don’t need.

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