computer science Hackers can listen to smartphone and computer displays to know what content you're consuming Séamus Bellamy

beer That "Ultra Right Beer" lost its contract brewery Thom Dunn

hacker lore A story about a weird "magic switch" at MIT Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics DEA releases chart of 'Dangerous Emojis' used to buy drugs Ethan Persoff

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spies Recently declassified documents there was an actual MI-6 agent in the 60s named James Bond Thom Dunn

security Browser plugins from Avast and AVG yanked for stealing user data Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Cheap safe looks like a book Mark Frauenfelder

google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow

privacy Microsoft contractors are listening to your Skype conversations Séamus Bellamy

Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow

recreational lockpicking Look how easy it is to pick the lock on a FedEx transit safe Mark Frauenfelder

uk UK government is using child spies Séamus Bellamy

happy mutants EFF has released STARTTLS Everywhere: free tools to encrypt email between mail servers Cory Doctorow

facebook Facebook has repeatedly fired stalker employees, then covered it up Cory Doctorow

google It's 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption Cory Doctorow

web theory Why no one has made a tool to turn off Facebook oversharing Cory Doctorow

Business Thanks to "consent" buried deep in sales agreements, car manufacturers are tracking tens of millions of US cars Cory Doctorow

makers Securing the IoT: a tele-dildo controlled through the Tor network Cory Doctorow