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Number-crunchers set new record for cracking online encryption keys

A new record has been set for the largest encryption key ever broken, but there is little threat to online data for now

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Technology

Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

Insight

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Technology

Coated paper holds secret messages that can be erased with a hairdryer

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Australia

Technology

Australia's anti-encryption law is hurting press and personal privacy

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Technology

Science Museum’s Top Secret exhibition feeds spy-loving kid in us all

Culture

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Technology

I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

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Yoshua Bengio

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Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI

Features

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Technology

Exclusive: Thousands of security flaws found on UK government websites

News

Mike Richards: War of the computer worms

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Mike Richards: War of the computer worms

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Comment

We challenged MI5’s mass surveillance. Then they spied on us

States spying on the very organisations that challenge their surveillance power demonstrates how important such work is, says Privacy International’s Edin Omanovic

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Technology

Facebook to tell 4 million users their data may have been misused

News

Technology

Cybersecurity is failing us – and will continue to do so unless we act

Leader

Technology

Europe's new data laws are a way to push back on Silicon Valley

Leader

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Those GDPR emails should stop soon, but our data nightmare won't

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