No honor amongst hackers
‘A pattern of mischaracterization, misrepresentation, and outright alteration of breached data has emerged in two of the latest headline-grabbing batches of hacked files. [...]
Society
Will Bitcoin ever become real money?
“A Manhattan-based federal judge ruled on Monday (PDF) that a man accused of running an illegal Bitcoin exchange website could not have two charges of running an unlicensed [...]
Do not use emergency lines to catch terrorists, please!
“It’s the first time this kind an emergency alert has been sent to aid the search for a wanted suspect — normally the system is used only in cases of extreme weather [...]
How can hacking be so real in a show?
“With the Season 2 finale of “Mr. Robot” upon us this Wednesday — and Sunday’s Emmy Award win for Rami Malek as Outstanding Lead Actor — it feels like an [...]
Cameras, tape cover!
It sounds next-level paranoid, but covering your webcam with tape might not be a bad idea. Mark Zuckerberg does it. FBI Director James Comey does too. As The Next Web writes: [...]
Questionable parenting practices
As The Next Web writes: “It makes sense that an 18-year-old woman in Carinthia, Austria is actually suing her parents to get such photos taken down. “They knew no shame [...]
Facebook and Twitter joins the fight against fake news
I would say that using news companies to tackle the problem of fake news is really just one side of the story. I think the way ahead could be to use news and report services [...]
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 