Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 29, 2013
Two of the country's biggest hacking conferences get underway in Las Vegas this week. Black Hat and Defcon. The biggest difference between the two? This year organizers at Defcon officially disinvited Feds from showing up in the wake of NSA leaks, while Black Hat's keynote speaker will be none other than NSA Director General Keith Alexander. And Google changed Gmail last week -- where once there was one true inbox, now there seem to be three.
Two of the country’s biggest hacking conferences get underway in Las Vegas this week. Black Hat and Defcon. The biggest difference between the two? This year organizers at Defcon officially disinvited Feds from showing up in the wake of NSA leaks, while Black Hat’s keynote speaker will be none other than NSA Director General Keith Alexander. And Google changed Gmail last week — where once there was one true inbox, now there seem to be three.
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