politics Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
twitter A megathread of dirty industry secrets that you'll be glad you know even as you wish you didn't Cory Doctorow
religion Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow
china In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding Cory Doctorow
security Vtech covered up a leak of data on 6.3m children and their families, then tried to force us not to sue – the FTC just fined them $0.09/kid Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Collapsing "connected toy" company did nothing while hackers stole millions of voice recordings of kids and parents Cory Doctorow
