Google has been caught up in a legal battle that claims the Internet giant uses Gmail as a “secret data mining machine,” something it is fighting against. In a legal briefing the company filed, it contends something that has caused users and others to get a bit riled: that individuals who send emails to a […]
Gmail’s latest in a series of changes, the updated compose window, will soon go from opt-out to your only choice. Today’s Gmail blog post says that all Gmail accounts will switch to the new compose window in the next few days.
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Now this is definitely an embarrassing situation for female members of the Detroit police, as their bra cup sizes have been emailed to the other officers by accident. Just how the heck did such personal information become available? The answer is simple – a bullet proof vest. After all, the bullet proof vest that is worn by a man looks nearly the same as that of a woman’s on the outside, although the inside is very much different since it has been specially contoured to fit her curves. It is rather unfortunate then, that when a handful of female officers provided information such as their height, weight and bra cup sizes to the Detroit Police Department so that they are able to receive fitting bullet proof vests, it is rather unfortunate that a “clerical error” led to such a situation.
Assistant Chief James White, said, “On the third page, the females were listed. Unfortunately and embarrassingly, the cup sizes of the females were listed on that third page, and it was really just a clerical error.” Commander Dwayne Love was tasked to inform the officers that their bullet proof vests were ready to be collected, so in the forwarded email to the commanders who in turn forwarded it to the supervisors, and subsequently had it forwarded it to the rest of the officers, carried the weight, height and bra cup sizes of the women named in the attached Excel spreadsheet.
Bra Sizes Of Female Detroit Cops Emailed By Accident To Officers original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Two encrypted emails services – Silent Circle and Lavabit – shut down last week, the latter for reasons said to be refusal to conspire against the American people, with Silent Circle pulling the plug on its own service as a preemptive strike against the same reality. Mega’s CEO Vikram Kumar calls this “privacy seppuku,” and […]
When the government came knocking becayse Edward Snowden used Lavabit’s encrypted email service, it did the sensible thing and, uh, shut itself down
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Thursday of this week there was a bit of a one-two punch in effect as NSA leakster Edward Snowden announced first that encrypted email service Lavabit would shut down, followed closely by a similar announcement by Silent Circle. While Lavabit shut down in what very much appeared to be a government-pressured incident, Silent Circle made […]
Silent Circle, an email provider which guarantees end-to-end secure email, has announced that it’s going the same way as Edward Snowden’s beloved Lavabit
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Silent Circle’s thing has always been the promise of end-to-end secure communications, and that drive is apparently causing it to shut down the Silent Mail email service. Reasons cited in a blog post by CTO Jon Callas include the insecure nature of email protocols and preemptively avoiding the outside (read: FISA) pressures that prompted Lavabit to close its doors. Silent Circle says it hadn’t received any “subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else”. Still, CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch he believed the government would come knocking due to certain high profile users of the service. Its phone, video and text products remain operational and claim to be “secure as ever”, if you’re wondering.
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Earlier this evening, secure email service provider Lavabit announced without warning that it was shutting its doors, doing so after having spent several weeks in a legal battle it wasn’t authorized to talk about. Following this, a similar service called Silent Circle has announced that it will be shutting down its email service, doing so […]
The unfortunate side effect of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s email provider Lavabit pulling the plug rather than complying with the feds
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