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Business Our technology is haunted by demons controlled by transhuman life-forms Cory Doctorow

Business After being outed for massive hack and installing an NSA "rootkit," Yahoo cancels earnings call Cory Doctorow
Business Yahoo didn't install an NSA email scanner, it was a "buggy" NSA "rootkit" Cory Doctorow
security The FBI has no trouble spying on encrypted communications Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A lively history of DRM and gaming Cory Doctorow
security Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can't audit it) Damien Zammit
happy mutants Venerable hacker zine Phrack publishes its first issue in four years Cory Doctorow
fraud Lottery security director accused of hacking random-number generator to rig prizes Mark Frauenfelder
security Automating remote BIOS attacks Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Your smartphone's hidden, radio-controlling OS is totally insecure Cory Doctorow
Copyfight US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates! Cory Doctorow
Business Canadian businesses lobby for the right to infect peoples' computers with viruses and rootkits Cory Doctorow
Business Ubisoft's DRM leaves your computer wide open to browser-based system hijacking Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Anti-malware hardware has the potential to make it illegal and impossible to choose to run Linux Cory Doctorow
News School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Wait, you can buy USB Rootkits in SkyMall? Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Record industry's 20 biggest, stupidest mistakes Cory Doctorow
Sony assassinates amazing etailer Lik-Sang Cory Doctorow
Sony BMG: Canadians don't deserve the same justice as Americans Cory Doctorow