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Disabled Access

Advocates for open software standards recently claimed Microsoft Word and Google Docs contain a software bug that prevents visually-impaired users from accessing digital documents from their software when the documents are saved in the OpenDoc Format. Microsoft says that’s not true.
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Police Surveillance

The Dutch government recently gave the national police force permission to exploit zero-day bugs in consumer software in order to help them investigate police cases. But if consumers–and in some cases, the software manufacturers–don’t know that the bugs exist, does this move open the doors to unwarranted surveillance?
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