Military satellites and other electronic devices using carbon nanotube semiconductors will be able to withstand solar flare-ups and nuclear radiation from attacks that often corrupt data in standard chips.

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Instead, the fraudsters steal names and Social Security numbers by the hundreds, or even the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks and state employees.

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So rather than steal identities wallet by wallet, or computer by computer, they lift names and Social Security numbers by the dozens, or the hundreds, or the thousands, often with the help of corrupt insiders with access to personal data, including tax preparers, health care billing clerks, state employees and debt collectors.

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It could turn on your camera and GPS and stream feeds to a remote server, enabling cyber-criminals to corrupt privacy settings and steal your most sensitive data (including passwords, contacts and transactions).

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But even so, the data show that in states with strong FOIA laws politicians are less likely to be corrupt, and those that are corrupt are more likely to be caught.

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