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BLOG: How will Foxconn's pay impact Apple's prices?

Feb. 22, 2012 | ROY HARRIS

The shakeup in workplace conditions --- and especially pay levels --- at Apple Chinese partner Foxconn Technology is occurring far faster than most observers expected. It was just over a week ago, after all, that Apple said it was asking the Fair Labor Association, a global worker rights group, to audit working conditions at plants operated by its largest suppliers, including Foxconn.

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BLOG: Google privacy fiasco lesson: There is no privacy

Feb. 21, 2012 | TONY BRADLEY

Google is in some hot water for bypassing privacy controls on the Safari Web browser in iOS devices--and allegedly on Internet Explorer as well--to surreptitiously track users' online activities. While Google deals with the backlash and regulatory scrutiny from the FTC, there is an important lesson to be learned: privacy is dead.

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BLOG: Are self-signed SSL certificates as insecure as they say?

Feb. 16, 2012 | CORY FLYNN, CEO AND FOUNDER OF FIREWALL EXPERTS

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted" certificates for our websites, but in the end even Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud.

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