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security Not just crapgadgets: Sony's enterprise CCTV can be easily hacked by IoT worms like Mirai Cory Doctorow
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Business Sole and Despotic Dominion: how a 20th century copyright law is abolishing property for humans (but not corporations) Cory Doctorow
security New, fast-spreading IoT botnet hybridizes two less-effective strains to achieve quick dominance Cory Doctorow
Business Warner Bros angry that someone other than the MPAA is running an illegal internal movie server Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Every Android device potentially vulnerable to "most serious" Linux escalation attack, ever Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Mercedes' weird "Trolley Problem" announcement continues dumb debate about self-driving cars Cory Doctorow
security The clumsy, amateurish IoT botnet has now infected devices in virtually all of the world's countries Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Copyright Office wants your comments on whether it should be illegal to fix your own stuff Cory Doctorow
Business Johnson & Johnson says people with diabetes don't need to worry about potentially lethal wireless attacks on insulin pumps Cory Doctorow
computer science The malware that's pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish Cory Doctorow