Technology

On the 21st May this year thousands of South Africans will unite in various cities throughout the country, to protest Monsanto’s attempts to force GMOs on the population.  The March Against Monsanto movement is an anti-GMO, pro-organic campaign held in more than 500 cities across the globe – which aims to spread awareness of the harmful effects of genetically-modified foods and the toxic poisonous herbicides that are used to grow them. Veteranstoday.com reports: “The FDA has placed the interest of a handful of biotechnology companies ahead of their responsibility to protect public health.

Forget old fashioned passwords, fingerprint sensors or even iris scanners, biometric security has something new in the pipeline…the sound of your skull. Yes, you will soon be able to login with your noggin! Researchers at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Saarland and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have come up with a new alternative for password entry, by listening to the unique sound of the skull.

A professional hacker was rewarded by Facebook for finding a security vulnerability on one of their servers that stole the usernames and passwords of staff members. A paid hacker made his way into a Facebook server only to find out that it was already hacked by another paid hacker, who had installed malware, siphoning off usernames and passwords to a remote computer. The hacker was rewarded $10,000 and his talents were appreciated by the world’s largest social network.

Well, he deserves it for "saving the world," right?

Source: Investors.com

Submitted by Adam Dick via AntiWar.com,

It all started so “harmless.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted to access the information of a person being investigated for mass murder so, the FBI said, it could try to prevent more terrorist attacks.