iceland These Icelandic horses will write your out-of-office emails for you Thom Dunn

facebook Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid Cory Doctorow

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

censorship Substack fires editor in "retaliation" for working with high-profile writer who switched to rival Ghost Thom Dunn

phishing Project Veritas scammed out of $165,000 by a phishing email Thom Dunn

surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

law DOJ indicts 80, many based in Nigeria, in business email scam and money laundering Xeni Jardin

crime FBI: Online theft, fraud, exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in 2017 Xeni Jardin

security Security keys are "transformative" and "revolutionary" for information security Cory Doctorow

Clash of the corporate titans: Who's spending what in Europe's Copyright Directive battle Cory Doctorow

Business Marriott-Starwood data breach: 500 million guests may be affected, hackers active since 2014 Xeni Jardin

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

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Boing Boing Gadgets Epson is teaching the internet not to install security updates Cory Doctorow

canada Russia-linked hacker Karim Baratov gets 5 years in U.S. prison & $250,000 fine for Yahoo breach Xeni Jardin

Business CEO of Trustico emails 23,000 HTTPS private keys, triggering panicked mass-revocation Cory Doctorow

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