A credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured buckets in Amazon's cloud

A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) | Continue reading


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Woman says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15

Woman says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15 | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets

Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Crisis for Bolsonaro's justice minister Sergio Moro after leaks reveal that he targeted Lulu for political prosecution

Crisis for Bolsonaro's justice minister Sergio Moro after leaks reveal that he targeted Lulu for political prosecution | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Insiders claim Google's internet-fixing Jigsaw is a toxic vanity project

Insiders claim that Google's internet-fixing Jigsaw is a toxic vanity project for its founder, where women keep a secret post-crying touchup kit in the bathroom | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

“I'm 10-15”: the secret CBP Facebook group

"I'm 10-15": the secret CBP Facebook group full of racism, sexism, and jokes about migrant deaths | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Yubico U.S. Government security keys vulnerable to hackers

U.S. Government security keys vulnerable to hackers, for the dumbest imaginable reason | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

A Teenagers IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

“I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in the NYT” Doctorow Op-Ed from Future

"I Shouldn't Have to Publish This in The New York Times": my op-ed from the future | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Valve Killing Steam Support for Some Ubuntu Users

Valve killing Steam Support for some Ubuntu users | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

USB inventor admits that the plugs are annoying

USB inventor admits that the plugs are annoying | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

How accounting forced transparency on the aristocracy and changed the world

How accounting forced transparency on the aristocracy and changed the world | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Discovering whether your iPhone has been hacked is nearly impossible

Discovering whether your Iphone has been hacked is nearly impossible thanks to Apple's walled garden | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook now

Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook now | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Woman asks for Mariah Carey on her birthday cake, gets Marie Curie instead

Woman asks for Mariah Carey on her birthday cake, gets Marie Curie instead | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Ukranian oligarchs accused of laundering $470bn, buying up much of Cleveland, OH

Ukrainian oligarchs accused of laundering $470b, buying up much of Cleveland | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Study: People could be eating a credit card's worth of microplastics per week

Study: people could be eating a credit card's worth of microplastics per week | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon to tame monopolies

Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

What the government doesn't understand about the Internet, and what to do about it

What the government doesn't understand about the Internet, and what to do about it | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Ars Technica writer arrested for 'enticement of a minor'

Ars Technica writer Peter Bright aka @DrPizza arrested for 'enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity' | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Australia's raids on journalists signal an authoritarian turning point

Australia's raids on journalists signal an authoritarian turning point | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

YouTube carves policy exception allowing “hurtful” homophobic slurs

Nothing to be proud of today | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

EU AG upholds order forcing FB to globally remove insults to politicians

European legal official OKs orders that force Facebook to globally remove insults to politicians like "oaf" and "fascist" (as well as synonyms) | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Is this the greatest shot in TV journalism?

Is this the greatest shot in TV journalism? | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Amazon “solution” to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording

New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still under its control

How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Big Tech: “If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us ... China will win ”

Big Tech: "If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!" | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Thangrycat: A deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji

Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji 😾😾😾 | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park

Watch: cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership

DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful 8 leaker was caught

Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful Eight leaker was caught | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 4 years ago

Watch a robot solve a Rubik's cube in less than half a second

Watch a robot solve a Rubik's cube in less than half a second | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

European telcos want the right to perform “deep packet inspection”

European telcos want the right to perform "deep packet inspection" on our data | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Bipartisan Groups Call on Congress to Reinstate Office of Technology Assessment

Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Rare “positive” lightning bolt caught on video

Rare "positive" lightning bolt caught on video | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that China uses in Xinjiang

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Companies sell services to get products featured and upranked on Amazon

"Black hat" companies sell services to get products featured and upranked on Amazon | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2011)

Cory Doctorow on how the copyright wars clue us into an upcoming fight over the destiny of the general-purpose computer. | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies

How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Apple's growth strategy is a textbook case of antitrust abuse

Apple's growth strategy is a textbook case of antitrust abuse | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face

In this Twitter exchange, jetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face -- from the DHS | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Fallon played a video game; now streaming your own game gets you taken down

Jimmy Fallon played a video game on air, meaning that streaming your own game gets you taken down as a pirate, thanks to NBC | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Jimmy Fallon played a video game on air, streaming your game gets you taken down

Jimmy Fallon played a video game on air, meaning that streaming your own game gets you taken down as a pirate, thanks to NBC | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

Facebook has hired the Patriot Act's co-author as a general counsel

Facebook has hired the Patriot Act's co-author and "day-to-day manager" to be its new general counsel | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

For sale: charred remains of Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page's Loch Ness home

For sale: charred remains of Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page's Loch Ness home | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: A Turning Point in the Debate over Monopoly

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago

RIP, science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019

RIP, science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019 | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 5 years ago