In the movie Sneakers, which I consider the best hacker film every made, Robert Redford leads a band of criminal geeks who are chasing a madman named Cosmo. Unlike traditional villians, Cosmo isn’t trying to steal a nuclear bomb or extort the world by threatening to release a deadly virus. [Keep reading]
Home webcams designed to keep your family safe may in fact put them at risk, suggests a settlement filed by the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday against a video camera servurity company. In some cases, cameras designed to check in on children were instead used by computer hackers across the [Keep reading]
The latest evidence that social media shaming isn’t what it used to be arrived this weekend, when a disgruntled British Airways flyer felt compelled to pay for a “promoted Tweet” to complain about his lost bags. Even with the extra Twitter prominence, lost bag victim Hasan Syed still didn’t get satisfaction [Keep reading]
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