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Cory Doctorow / 5:45 am Thu, Aug 18, 2016

The NSA's program of tech sabotage created the Shadow Brokers

The more we learn about the Shadow Brokers, who claim to be auctioning off "cyberweapons" that crafted for the NSA's use, the scarier the breach gets: some of the world's biggest security companies are tacitly admitting that the exploits in the Shadow Brokers' initial release can successfully penetrate their products, and they have no fix at hand. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 1:35 pm Fri, Nov 27, 2015

A Canadian teenager used America's militarized cops to terrorize women gamers for years

If you're a woman on the Internet, harassment comes with the territory. There have been jerky dudes since time immemorial, after all. But with the advent of America's militarized cops, sociopathic misogynists have a new, deadly force-multiplier in their war on women. Read the rest