government shutdown Miami Airport is shutting down a 15-gate terminal that includes United over the weekend because of shutdown Carla Sinclair
security Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos's phone to obtain kompromat and force Washington Post silence on Khashoggi Cory Doctorow
This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz
facebook After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services Cory Doctorow
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
futility closet In 1898 two man-eating lions terrorized a railway camp in British East Africa Futility Closet
politics More than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump government shutdown Xeni Jardin
picks As Brazil prepares to elect 'Trump,' Facebook shuts down 68 pages & 43 accounts that got him there Xeni Jardin
News Brazil Elections: Facebook's WhatsApp “taking immediate legal action” against political spammers Xeni Jardin
surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow
books An excerpt from "Bullshit Jobs," David Graeber's forthcoming book about the rise of useless work Cory Doctorow
privacy Australia is a world leader in internet usage and bad internet policies, so Australians want better policies Cory Doctorow
spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway Cory Doctorow
