Business Google reaches into customers' homes and bricks their gadgets Cory Doctorow

Business Caterpillar's heavy vehicles are killswitched subprime computers on wheels Cory Doctorow

security Schneier: "It's really too late to secure 5G networks" Cory Doctorow

security Vulnerabilities in GPS fleet-tracking tools let attackers track and immobilize cars en masse Cory Doctorow

robots Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step Cory Doctorow

mobile Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation Cory Doctorow

drm US Copyright Office: locking hardware with DRM is no longer cool Seamus Bellamy

law Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Get a great deal on 3 years of premium VPN service Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets Crowdfunder for a free/open phone crosses $1M mark Cory Doctorow

security After Defcon, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry Cory Doctorow

crime Global Wannacry payout: $140,000 — a superweapon in the hands of dum-dums Cory Doctorow

security An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry's killswitch Cory Doctorow

security Yesterday's report of hardier Wcry retracted, but new versions found Cory Doctorow

security Retracted! Wcry ransomware is reborn without its killswitch, starts spreading anew Cory Doctorow

security The virulent ransomware worm has been stopped (for now) by a hidden killswitch Cory Doctorow

Business John Oliver on subprime auto-lending and its killswitches Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Copyright Office to FCC: Hollywood should be able to killswitch your TV Cory Doctorow

books Crowdfunding an English translation of the story of activists who kept the Internet on during the Arab Spring Cory Doctorow