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Concerns metadata retention could create a ‘honeypot’ for hackers

Image by Alexandre Normand, CC BY 2.0 Both Australia’s largest telco and a leading digital privacy organisation have warned that mandatory data retention could create a “honeypot” of personal information that could be compromised by hackers and criminals. The warning came at a Parliamentary Committee hearing on proposed Data Retention legislation, which is hearing from telecommunications providers, security experts and …

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Phablets to flood smartphone market in coming years

Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus helped the company score record earnings last quarter. Sarah Tew Bigger is better, according to a new Juniper Research report that says phablets are destined to become even more popular over the next several years. More than 400 million phablets will ship in 2019, five times the the estimated 138 million to be shipped this year, …

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