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Bought the iphone 4 that has had some problems, whats the potential implications for them? >> well, the thing is that apple is the one company in the cross hairs. theyve been vocal about jailbreaking. even though knave never gone after a customer for doing so. particularly android because its open source. this is really something where people when they hear about jailbreaking they automatically think about apple and the iphone. >> the obama administration was against the change in jailbreak laws...

Bloomberg wants to spend $108 million of his own money, half of that will go to poorer candidates. that will give us a wider choice of potential leaders. step two, disclose everything to all. mandatory forced self-disclosure. we must force our politicians to be on the hook to reveal every donation they receive, every special interest check or favor that transpires. and i propose that we go beyond that to reveal every potential conflict of interest, be it an invite to a defense contractors barbec...

Is just one example provided to cnn of the information gathered under a contract that was supposed to have information collected only using what is known as open-source methods. contractors were to learn more about afghan tribes, warlords, and communities through local media, public meetings, and talking to citizens. but the cia station chief in kabul complained that the pentagon contractors were illegally running an unofficial spy ring. >> i really dont know enough about the details relating to...

>> there is. because i think we would like to hear a little bit about that. plan b. >> for another time, i think. >> for another time? all right. >> judge jeanine: they are losing it over the offer. a washington post: missing this "i am frightened by the impact on society and politics if elon musk acquires twitter. he seems to believe on social media, anything goes pure democracy to survive. we need more content moderation, not less. all right, dana, im going to start with you. okay, so zuckerbe...

Significantly worse than past elections. quoting here again, the community found that this judgment was supported by the evidence presented in the ica. since its publication, further details have come to light that bolster the assessment. harm hillary clinton, and help donald trump. quote, the committee found that the ica provided a range of all source reporting to support these assessments. on the assessment that the method used was to publicly discredit secretary clinton and publicly contrast ...

Microsoft have been around for a long time theyre based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code thats publicly available. thats why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carried out by a swarm of programmers identifies and closes security gaps and efficiently produces state of the art...

Created a culture that accepts this mechanism so its a real challenge to create alternatives. alternatives to microsoft have been around for a long time theyre based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code thats publicly available. thats why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carri...

What he said? >> im not sure. >> [ inaudible ]. >> when did he make the decision. >> when did he make the decision to share the information? >> in the context of the conversation, which was wholly appropriate. >> the spin is the president revealed the name of the city and that gave away information that undermined an ally. >> if you were to say, hey, from where do you think a threat might come, from territory that isis controls, you would probably be able to name a few cities i would think. it w...

>> over the course of the last several hours we hear more about the conversation may have been focused on laptop bombs and terrorist groups in the middle east. you dont have to search much further than cnn.com to get caught up on the somali passenger plane that was brought down by a laptop. a story breaking on wolf blitzer as the presidents executive order comes out, a travel restriction from ten airports, that the bomb maker is developing a technology to use computer bombs that may be spread to...

Citizen and any suggestion otherwise is false. operative word to me, ordered. >> that many right. there is a big difference between ordered and knowing everything else about it. ben rhodes doesnt deny they knew of everything else about this fisa warrant tapping into the trump campaign in the middle of the fall election. if this happened, folks need to understand this is what the tactics of a police state are, to use intelligence gathering against political opponents. it makes watergate look like...