Your internet-of-shit smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of a Lifx bulb; and that's just for starters: the bulbs also store their RSA private key and root passwords in the clear and have no security measures to prevent malicious reflashings of their ROMs with exploits, network probes and other nasties. (Thanks, John!)
Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear
Terrifying tale of an airport mix-up that turned a MacBook into a paperweight
Paul McMahon, a software developer in Tokyo, shared the nightmarish experience of what happened when he didn't set up Find My on his new MacBook Air. As Paul describes, "Thanks… READ THE REST
U.K. backs off plan to ban end-to-end encryption
Authorities in Britain have admitted they cannot ban end-to-end encryption without making private communications insecure [Financial Times], an outcome that implicates everything from bonking to banking. The effort, posed as… READ THE REST
Woman's credit card can't be lifted from the ground
Forget the ambient temperature superconductor announcement from yesterday; the remarkable property of this credit card is the real "brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind." Recorded on… READ THE REST
Wear these headphones in the pool—they won't fall off either!
TL;DR: Listen to your workout playlist while you're swimming laps by wearing the SWYM+ headphones, which are available for $89.99 (reg. $129)—the best price online! You know what stinks about our audio… READ THE REST
Think Elon Musk ruined Twitter? Code a better app with this
TL;DR: Save 92% on Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for Windows and get it at its lowest price ever! Remember when Twitter was fun? (Well, when it was still called that and not…X. We… READ THE REST
Teslas suck! What you really need is this whizz-bang CarPlay screen
TL;DR: Get 37% off this touchscreen infotainment system with CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. Elon, who?? Okay, maybe Teslas have cool infotainment systems, but you don't have to pay crazy prices for an over-hyped… READ THE REST
