statues Michelangelo's fingerprints discovered on the butt of a wax sculpture Thom Dunn

security In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction Cory Doctorow

privacy Firefox is getting more browser fingerprinting protection courtesy of Tor Browser's "letterboxing" technique Cory Doctorow

privacy How surveillance capitalism tracks you without cookies Cory Doctorow

counterfeit Canada creates maple syrup fraud deterrent Séamus Bellamy

mistakes How to hide secret messages in emoji Rob Beschizza

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of staff, winds up advocacy division Rob Beschizza

Law enforcement reports successful Tor deanonymizations in Germany Rob Beschizza

trump Countdown to Trump's mugshot Jason Weisberger

guns Maryland Supreme Court makes it illegal to say which gun shot a bullet in ballistic testimonies Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Tired of marketers stealing your data? Winston can protect your home's internet traffic Boing Boing's Shop

facial recognition A toilet with facial recognition for your butthole Thom Dunn

chiptunes Chiptunes plagiarized Rob Beschizza

Business Behind the One-Way Mirror: EFF's "deep dive into corporate surveillance" Cory Doctorow

facebook Google's watching you watching porn Séamus Bellamy

usausausa The US requires visas for some EU citizens, so now all US citizens visiting the EU will be subjected to border formalities too Cory Doctorow

machine learning Shitty Tumblr pornbot inception Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Security researchers identify "fingerprints" in 3D printed objects that can be used to trace their manufacturing Cory Doctorow

News Mozilla's Firefox & Apple's Safari browsers add anti-Facebook and Google privacy protections Xeni Jardin

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