Proposed FAA rules would prohibit flying drones out of eyesight, at night, or over people, while the president has ordered federal agencies to be transparent about data collection and to respect privacy. 
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Firefox to get a “walled garden” for browser extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter
Mozilla has announced that its Firefox browser is heading towards signed browser extensions only. Even if you publish your extensions “off market,” you’ll have to get Mozilla to sign them first.
Google’s Project Zero backs off a bit – will now give up to 14 days’ grace
Google’s controversial “zero-day dropping machine,” Project Zero, which automatically outs your bugs after 90 days, will now give up to 14 day’s leeway.
Microsoft pulls PowerPoint-killing patch KB2920732
The latest in a series of Microsoft patch failures rendered PowerPoint inoperable on devices running Windows RT.
News flash: hacker turns Apple’s Lightning connector into a jailbreak conductor
A French hacker says he’ll soon be making modified Lightning connector cables that will give Apple iOS jailbreakers a better view inside their iDevices.
US wireless carriers now legally have to unlock our phones
US mobile phone owners have regained their freedom: we can now legally unlock our phones and take them to another network carrier. 
Memex – DARPA’s search engine for the Dark Web
Memex is like the Google of the deepest, darkest parts of the web, focusing (for the moment) on tackling human trafficking and slavery.
Are Miami cops really flooding Waze with fake police sightings?
An NBC affiliate seems to think so, but others are dubious. Miami’s finest would have to be lacking in tech smarts to think they could game the Google app.
What do you mean, “Facebook is now text only”? – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly one-minute security video. Fun, fast…and educational.
Robot tweets “I seriously want to kill people”, prompts police response
When Dutch police responded to a death threat made by a local Twitter account, they discovered the culprit was nothing more than an automated bot.