hackers Less than 1 week after Florida town pays ransomware gang ~$600K, another Florida town votes to pay ~$500K in BTC to ransomware gang Xeni Jardin
christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow
telcoms Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy Cory Doctorow
censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Rightscorp finished Sept 2017 with $3,147 in the bank, warns investors it will likely have to shut down without more cash Cory Doctorow
makers In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay Cory Doctorow
puzzles Can we wrap a 1x1x1 cube with the blue 3×3 piece of paper, cutting along some edges without disconnecting it? Mark Frauenfelder
security Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm Cory Doctorow
gop After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead Cory Doctorow
