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November 8, 2017

Logitech will intentionally brick Harmony Link devices next year - TechSpot

In an email sent to Logitech customers and confirmed via Logitech's phone support, owners of Harmony Link devices will be in for an unpleasant surprise come March 16, 2018. Logitech is going to intentionally brick the Harmony Link that allows users to control home theater and other sound equipment using an app. The device was released in 2011.

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Behind the Facebook profile you’ve built for yourself is another one, a shadow profile, built from the inboxes and smartphones of other Facebook users. Contact information you’ve never given the network gets associated with your account, making it easier for Facebook to more completely map your social connections.

Évasion fiscale : Apple et Uber ciblées par les #ParadisePapers

Si les révélations des Paradise Papers permettent de rebondir sur les suspicions d'ingérence russe sur les élections américaines, elles mettent surtout en lumière les montages fiscaux d'Apple sur l'île de Jersey.

Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed | Ars Technica

Estonia abruptly suspends digital ID cards as crypto attacks get easier and cheaper. [...] When researchers first disclosed the flaw three weeks ago, they estimated it would cost an attacker renting time on a commercial cloud service an average of $38 and 25 minutes to break a vulnerable 1024-bit key and $20,000 and nine days for a 2048-bit key.