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Lock-picking with photographs, Tech Companies fight with the US, password cracking is easy when mistakes are made, Microsoft downloads you might not use, and more tech news of the week.

Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access

Companies like Apple say they are protecting their customers

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos

Those photos first began making the rounds online last month, after the Washington Post unwittingly published (and then quickly deleted) a photo of the master keys in an article about the

Ashley Madison password crack could spell trouble across the Internet

Now that a hobbyist team has uncovered programming errors that make more than 15 million of the Ashley Madison account passwords orders of magnitude faster to crack, it will be only a matter of time before a large percentage of them are available to hackers everywhere. And given how rampant password reuse is, the tsunami-sized torrent is sure to affect accounts all over the Internet.

Wikipedia Editors Uncover Extortion Scam And Extensive Cybercrime Syndicate

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that sponsors but does not operate Wikipedia, announced Monday that at least 381 accounts have been suspended for