Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)(wired.com)

33 points by nadermx 2 years ago | 11 comments

A 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity(wired.com)

17 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 8 comments

Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack(wired.com)

131 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 52 comments

Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask(wired.com)

53 points by dylan604 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired(wired.com)

85 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 83 comments

He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive(wired.com)

47 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 42 comments

The US government is buying troves of data about Americans(wired.com)

417 points by benwerd 3 years ago | 198 comments

Wired article on a declassified ODNI report revealing that US federal agencies are buying large amounts of commercially available data about Americans.

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders(theguardian.com)

836 points by skilled 1 year ago | 332 comments

Guardian investigation reporting that Israel required Google and Amazon to use a secret signal to alert it to foreign legal orders as part of a cloud contract.

A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals(effort.news)

602 points by yusufozkan 1 month ago | 205 comments

An Effort investigation alleging that Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to hack real targets.

Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor(macrumors.com)

1105 points by throw0101d 1 year ago | 574 comments

MacRumors article reporting that the UK government secretly ordered Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted iCloud content worldwide, citing The Washington Post.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism(matduggan.com)

362 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 320 comments

A blog post by Mat Duggan arguing that cyberlibertarian ideology in the tech world is hypocritical, opening with reflections on life before the Internet.