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fromThe Mercury News
3 days ago

Lawrence Lab researcher allegedly downloaded child porn for 30 years, avoided charges until this week

An 86-year-old Berkeley lab researcher allegedly stored decades of child sexual abuse material on encrypted home and work devices, with hundreds of thousands seized.
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Signal will store 100MB of messages free; 100GB at $1.99/mo

Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it. The company will gift all users 100MB of free storage for images, video, GIFs and other media from the prior 45 days of use. Signal users can choose to delete their messages after a set period. The new storage feature is opt-in to preserve that preference.
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