internet security Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency Xeni Jardin
ge Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won't dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component Cory Doctorow
canada reads Radicalized is a Canada Reads finalist, will be a graphic novel, and is eligible for the Hugo Award! Cory Doctorow
sensing without surveilling Imagining a "smart city" that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed Cory Doctorow
barnacle Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots Cory Doctorow
discord Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners Cory Doctorow
dystopia watch Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
loveint A woman's stalker compromised her car's app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it Cory Doctorow
apks My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of "cyberwarfare" Cory Doctorow
binary analysis Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow
im in your lightbulbs stealing your pii Guy returns his "smart" light bulbs, discovers he can still control them after someone else buys them Cory Doctorow
finely parsed misleading statements Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
butthax Penetration tester releases proof-of-concept code for hijacking smart buttplugs Cory Doctorow
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor Grounded teen evades device confiscation by tweeting from the smart-fridge Cory Doctorow
