Phone Trips(wideweb.com)

62 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 6 comments

The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s(blog.jgc.org)

106 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 71 comments

PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts(yyzkevin.com)

99 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 25 comments

Iowa Payphone Defends Itself (Associated Press, 1984)(payphone-project.com)

11 points by TigerUniversity 7 months ago | 2 comments

Emulating the DMD 5620 Terminal (2018)(loomcom.com)

23 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 5 comments

My favorite keyboards(fabiensanglard.net)

114 points by tmach32 3 months ago | 109 comments

Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas(blog.ericgoldman.org)

37 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | 38 comments

Eric Goldman blog post on the Seventh Circuit's U.S. v. Stathas ruling allowing police to wipe a convicted offender's cellphone before returning it.

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras(eff.org)

323 points by xoa 1 year ago | 151 comments

EFF Deeplinks article criticizing Amazon Ring for adding features that give police access, including live-streamed footage, to users' cameras.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers(securityweek.com)

600 points by mindracer 2 years ago | 335 comments

SecurityWeek article reporting Twilio's confirmation of a data breach after hackers leaked 33 million phone numbers tied to the Authy app.

Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker(arstechnica.com)

339 points by Shank 2 years ago | 132 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Verizon handed a victim's phone data to a stalker posing as a police officer with a fake search warrant.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules(arstechnica.com)

496 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 343 comments

Ars Technica article on a court ruling that suspects can refuse to give police their phone passcodes, noting conflicting case law that may reach the Supreme Court.