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- Pyramid-age love story comes to life in Egyptian tomb’s vivid color.
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- Former FBI agent reveals who really killed JFK.
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- A cabinet of illegal curiosities: The US National Wildlife Property Repository reveals its macabre collection of goods seized from the illegal trade in endangered species. Check out the photo gallery.
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- Internet architects propose encrypting all the world’s Web traffic.
Quote of the Day:
F*** these guys. I’ve spent the last ten years of my life trying to keep Google’s users safe and secure from the many diverse threats Google faces. I’ve seen armies of machines DOS-ing Google. I’ve seen worms DOS-ing Google to find vulnerabilities in other people’s software. I’ve seen criminal gangs figure out malware.
But after spending all that time helping in my tiny way to protect Google — one of the greatest things to arise from the internet — seeing this, well, it’s just a little like coming home from War with Sauron, destroying the One Ring, only to discover the NSA is on the front porch of the Shire chopping down the Party Tree and outsourcing all the hobbit farmers with half-orcs and whips.
Google engineer Brandon Downey, as quoted in Google engineers offer the NSA ‘a giant F*** You’.
