It is entirely fitting that the headliner for this masquerade is a feeble looking 72-year-old white guy who doesn't know how many homes he owns.

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This masquerade ended when apps seeded with BadNews got a prompt from one of three command and control servers, then it started pushing out and installing a more malicious programme called AlphaSMS. This steals credit by sending text messages to premium rate numbers.

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Ironically, reformers who keep supporting measures like McCain-Feingold do a disservice to genuine campaign-finance reform, because if bills like this are allowed to masquerade as reform, neither Congress nor the president will get serious about public financing.

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This story reads like a masquerade of science as opposed to real science.

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This is becoming a bigger issue as PCs try to masquerade as audiovisual components in the living room.

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