crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow
security DOJ accuses Verizon and AT&T employees of participating in SIM-swap identity theft crimes Cory Doctorow
security A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure Cory Doctorow
crime Fraudsters offers thousands to low-waged telco employees for help with SIM Swap scams Cory Doctorow
Business Your phone company's shitty security is all that's standing between you and total digital destruction Cory Doctorow
web theory Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system Cory Doctorow
politics Using distributed code-signatures to make it much harder to order secret backdoors Cory Doctorow
class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow
corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow
music The "Uber of Live Music" will charge you $1100-1600 to book a house show, pay musicians $100 Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Older Americans are working beyond retirement age at levels not seen since 1962 Cory Doctorow
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Business Swedes are entitled to six months' leave to start a business, look after a sick relative, or study Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow