security Snowden helped design an app that turns your old phone into a surveillance device to help solve the "evil maid" problem Cory Doctorow
Technology FBI and DHS's CISA warn China-backed hackers are targeting U.S. COVID-19 research Xeni Jardin
Gadgets Amazon Web Services and Azure control half the cloud market. This training can help you handle both. Boing Boing's Shop
Technology Zoom transmits your info through China, and uses non-standard encryption, researchers say Xeni Jardin
happy mutants 88 Names: Matt Ruff's MMORPG heist novel is "Snow Crash meets the King and I" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
security Idiotic security mistakes in smart conferencing gear allows hackers to spy on board rooms, steal presentations Cory Doctorow
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
crime The bizarre story of China's most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets Cory Doctorow
ice ICE arrested 250 foreign-born people for the most heinous of crimes: pursuing higher education Thom Dunn
security New York Times abruptly eliminates its "director of information security" position: "there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security" Cory Doctorow
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