petard Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow
security The voting machines that local officials swore were not connected to the internet have been connected to the internet for years Cory Doctorow
security A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow
Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow
mass surveillance In this Twitter exchange, jetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face — from the DHS Mark Frauenfelder
Business Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Defcon Voting Village report shows that hacking voting machines takes less time than voting Cory Doctorow
spyware Another popular privacy app in the Mac App Store caught stealing users' browser history Rob Beschizza
terms of service If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email Mark Frauenfelder
